S.L. 1973-178

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 178

SENATE BILL 424

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 134, SESSION LAWS OF 1967, TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION AND TERMS OF OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE SANFORD GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT SO AS TO CONFORM THE DATE OF ELECTION TO THE REGULAR MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN THE TOWN OF SANFORD.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Chapter 134, Session Laws of 1967, is hereby amended by rewriting Sections 1 and 2 to read:

"Section 1. The Board of Trustees of the Sanford Graded School District in Lee County, shall consist of seven members who shall serve staggered terms of six years and who shall be elected by the qualified voters of the Sanford Graded School District.

"Sec. 2. At the regular municipal elections to be held for municipal officers in the Town of Sanford in November 1973, there shall be elected three members of the Board of Trustees to succeed those members whose terms expire in 1973. Those members elected in 1973 shall serve for a term of six years commencing on the first Monday in December following their election. In the regular municipal election in 1975, and every two years thereafter, as the terms of members expire, their successors shall be elected for terms of six years, said terms commencing on the first Monday in December following their election. Vacancies occurring on the Board of Trustees for any cause shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment by the remaining members of the Board."

Sec. 2. Chapter 134, Session Laws of 1967, is hereby amended by rewriting Section 4 to read as follows:

"Sec. 4. The Board of Elections of Lee County shall conduct all elections for the Sanford Graded School District including bond and special elections in accordance with the laws applicable to the particular election to be held. Except as may be provided in this act, elections for members of the Board of Trustees shall be held under the same provisions of Articles 23 and 24 of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes, which are applicable to regular municipal elections in the Town of Sanford. The County Board of Elections shall be reimbursed by the Board of Trustees for the actual cost of elections held for the School District."

Sec. 3. The terms of J. R. Ingram, Jr., Dr. M. Cade Covington and J. M. Auman are hereby extended to the first Monday in December, 1973. The terms of Glen York and Mary Alice Holmes, scheduled to expire June 30, 1975, and the terms of Joseph Roy Utley and Nan G. Howard, scheduled to expire June 30, 1977, are all hereby extended to the first Monday in December of the year in which their terms are scheduled to expire.

Sec. 4. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of April, 1973.