NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 977

HOUSE BILL 1593

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION, AND FIXING THEIR TERMS OF OFFICE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Section 1 of Chapter 161 of the 1973 Session Laws of 1973 is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2. Section 2 of Chapter 254 of the 1955 Session Laws as amended by Section 1 of Chapter 100 of the 1959 Session Laws is hereby rewritten as follows:

"Sec. 2. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Board of Education shall henceforth consist of seven members elected for four-year terms; provided this act shall not affect the terms of presently elected members. The election shall be held at the same time as provided by general law for the municipal elections for the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. At the election in 1975, two members shall be elected for four-year terms. At the election in 1977 and every second biennial election thereafter, three members shall be elected for four-year terms. At the election in 1979 and every second biennial election thereafter, four members shall be elected for four-year terms. Members shall take office on the first Monday in December following the election of their successors, or until their successors are elected and qualified. The election shall be held and conducted by the Orange County Board of Elections under the same provisions of Articles 23 and 24 of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes which are applicable to the election of municipal officers in Chapel Hill and Carrboro."

Sec. 3. Section 5 of Chapter 254 of the Session Laws of 1955 is hereby rewritten as follows:

"Sec. 5. Vacancies occurring on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Board of Education by reason of death, resignation, or otherwise than by the expiration of the term of office, shall be filled by appointment of the remaining members of said board. If the member being replaced was in the last 26 months of the term, the appointment to fill the vacancy shall be for the remainder of the unexpired term. Otherwise, the term of the person appointed to fill the vacancy shall extend to the first Monday in December next following the first election for members of the board held after the day the vacancy occurs.

If at any election for members of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Board of Education vacancies have occurred and there are both regular four-year terms and two-year unexpired terms to be filled by election, the candidates elected with the greatest numbers of votes shall be elected for regular four-year terms, and the candidates elected with the lowest numbers of votes shall be elected to fill the remainder of the unexpired terms."

Sec. 4. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of March, 1974.