GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1993 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 102

HOUSE BILL 819

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR NONPARTISAN ELECTION OF THE TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 1 of Chapter 157, Session Laws of 1975, reads as rewritten:

"Section 1.  The Board of Education of Transylvania County shall consist of five members who shall be nominated and elected in a partisan primary and election as herein provided.  The primary and election shall be held and conducted in accordance with the general laws governing primaries and elections for county officers, except as otherwise provided herein. elected in accordance with G.S. 115C-37.

As the terms of the present members expire, beginning with the primary and election to be held in 1976, and every two years thereafter, members of the Board of Education shall be elected for terms of four years."

Sec. 2.  Section 3 of Chapter 157, Session Laws of 1975, reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 3.  Vacancies in the membership of the Board of Education occurring for any reason shall be filled immediately by the County Executive Committee of the political party to which the vacating member belonged. Transylvania County Board of Education.  The person appointed to fill the vacancy shall serve until the next election for members of the Board of Education at which time a person shall be elected to fill the unexpired term.  However, if a vacancy occurs in the last twenty-six months of a member's term, after the opening of the filing period for the general election in the middle of the four-year term, the appointment shall be for the unexpired term.  If a vacancy which is to be filled only to the next election occurs after the closing of the filing period for the primary next preceding that election, and no one has filed for the seat, the County Executive Committee of each political party shall name that party's nominee for the seat, and that nominee's name shall be printed on the general election ballot."

Sec. 3.  Section 1 of this act applies beginning with the 1994 election.  Section 2 of this act applies as to vacancies occurring on or after ratification.

Sec. 4.  This act applies to Transylvania County only.

Sec. 5.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 1st day of June, 1993.

 

 

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Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

 

 

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Daniel Blue, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives