NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 321

HOUSE BILL 637

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 717 OF THE 1975 SESSION LAWS RELATIVE TO THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE WAKE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Section 6(b) of Chapter 717 of the 1975 Session Laws is rewritten to read as follows:

"Sec. 6(b).  All terms of office for each member of the Wake County Board of Education nominated and elected in 1977 shall begin on the first Monday in December following the 1977 election and expire as follows:

The term of office for seats 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 shall expire on the first Monday in December of 1981.

The term of office for seats 6, 7, 8 and 9 shall expire on the first Monday in December of 1979."

Sec. 2. Section 7 of Chapter 717 of the 1975 Session Laws is amended by rewriting lines 1, 2 and 3 to read as follows:

"In the year 1977, and in each election thereafter, members of the Wake County Board of Education shall be elected by the nonpartisan primary method of election as hereinafter provided:".

Sec. 3. Section 7(b) of Chapter 717 of the 1975 Session Laws is rewritten to read as follows:

"Sec. 7(b).  A candidate seeking nomination for election to the Wake County Board of Education shall file notice of candidacy with the Wake County Board of Elections not later than 12:00 noon on the Friday preceding the fifth Saturday and not earlier than 12:00 noon on the Friday preceding the eighth Saturday before the primary election in which he seeks to run."

Sec. 4. Section 8 of Chapter 717 of the 1975 Session Laws is amended by rewriting the first sentence to read as follows:

"After the 1977 election, the vacancies occurring in the membership of the Wake County Board of Education shall be filled by nomination and election as the said terms of the members expire, and all such members so elected shall hold office for terms of four years."

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are repealed.

Sec. 6. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of May, 1977.