NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 922

HOUSE BILL 578

AN ACT TO CONSTITUTE AND ESTABLISH THE ELKIN-JONESVILLE CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT AND ELECTION OF MEMBERS IN THE EVENT THE JONESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT OF YADKIN COUNTY IS ANNEXED AND BECOMES A PART OF THE ELKIN CITY ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT BY REFERENDUM.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. If the qualified voters of Yadkin County do not approve a bond issue of said county in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000) for school construction in said Yadkin County, which said election or referendum on said bond issue is to be held on June 19, 1965, or if said referendum on said bond issue is not held, then it shall be the duty of the Board of County Commissioners of Yadkin County to request the Yadkin County Board of Elections to hold an election or referendum, and it shall be the duty of the Yadkin County Board of Elections to conduct an election or referendum in the Jonesville School District, as it was constituted on January 1, 1965, and said election or referendum shall be held on or prior to December 1, 1965. At said election or referendum to be held on or prior to December 1, 1965, there shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the Jonesville School District as it was constituted on January 1, 1965, two questions, which shall state in substance as follows: (1) Shall the Jonesville School District, as constituted on January 1, 1965, merge and join with the Elkin City Administrative Unit in Surry County to create an Administrative School Unit which shall be known as the Elkin-Jonesville Administrative School Unit? and (2) Shall the tax levying authorities of Yadkin County levy a twenty cent (20¢) supplemental tax on each one hundred dollars ($100.00) of valuation of property in the Jonesville School District, as constituted on January 1, 1965, to be used as a supplement for the proposed Elkin-Jonesville City Administrative Unit? If a majority of the qualified voters of the Jonesville School District, as constituted on January 1, 1965, voting in said referendum or election shall approve or answer both of said questions in the affirmative, then the Jonesville School District, as constituted on January 1, 1965, shall be merged with and become a part of the Elkin City Administrative Unit, to be known as the Elkin-Jonesville Administrative Unit, and said supplemental tax of twenty cents (20¢) shall be levied by the tax levying authorities for the benefit of said Elkin-Jonesville City Administrative Unit as herein required.

Sec. 2. In the event that a majority of the qualified voters of Jonesville School District, as constituted on January 1, 1965, shall approve in said referendum the organization of the Elkin-Jonesville City Administrative Unit and the levy of the tax as provided in said referendum, then there is hereby created the Elkin-Jonesville City Board of Education, which shall consist of five members appointed by the governing authority of the Town of Jonesville and five members appointed by the governing authority of the Town of Elkin. The members of said board shall take office on June 1, 1966. Three members from Jonesville shall serve for terms of four years each and two members from Jonesville shall serve for terms of two years each as designated by the governing authority of Jonesville. Two members from Elkin shall serve for terms of four years and three members shall serve for terms of two years as named and designated by the governing authority of the Town of Elkin, and thereafter all appointments made by each governing authority shall be for four years. All vacancies in the membership of the Elkin-Jonesville City Administrative Unit shall be filled by the governing authority of the area where the vacancy occurred, and all persons appointed to fill vacancies shall serve for the unexpired term or terms of the member or members who caused the vacancy. The members of the Elkin-Jonesville City Administrative Unit shall meet and elect one of its members to serve as chairman of the board, and said chairman shall vote only in case of a tie.

Sec. 3. After the Elkin-Jonesville Board of Education of the Elkin-Jonesville City Administrative Unit takes office on June 1, 1966, and prior to July 1, 1966, all school property in the Jonesville School District, as it existed on January 1, 1965, shall be transferred to the Board of Education of the Elkin-Jonesville City Administrative Unit. The Board of Education of the Elkin-Jonesville City Administrative Unit as set up and constituted in this Act, shall exercise all the powers and duties previously exercised by the Elkin City School Board and all powers and duties granted to city school boards and city administrative units as provided by Chapter 115 of the General Statutes, as amended.

Sec. 4. In the event a majority of the voters of Jonesville School District, as it existed on January 1, 1965, shall disapprove of either the merger of Jonesville School District with Elkin City Administrative Unit, as herein provided and referred to, or the twenty cent (20¢) supplemental tax, herein provided and referred to, either one or both of said propositions, then this Act shall be inoperative, null and void, and the Jonesville School District shall remain in the public school system of Yadkin County as it is now situated and constituted.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of June, 1965.