NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1967 SESSION

CHAPTER 1046
HOUSE BILL 1396

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF DUPLIN COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Board of Education of Duplin County shall continue to exist and to consist of five members. Each member of the Duplin County Board of Education shall continue to hold his office on said board until his term of office shall expire and until his successor is nominated and elected and inducted into office as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 2. In the year immediately preceding the expiration of any six‑year term of office of a member of the Board of Education of Duplin County his successor shall be nominated and elected in the primary and general election and the member so elected shall qualify and take office on the first Monday in April of the year following the election of said member of said board of education. The procedure herein provided shall be followed irrespective of the number of terms expiring and the number of vacancies on the board of education to be filled. Any member or members elected to office on said board of education shall serve for terms of six years each and until the successor of each member is elected and inducted into office.
Sec. 3. The primary and general election of the member or members of the Board of Education of Duplin County shall be conducted in all respects in accordance with the primary and general election laws applicable to county officers and as provided in Chapter 163 of the General Statutes as amended. Each candidate of a political party shall file notice of candidacy as required by the primary laws and shall pay a filing fee of five dollars ($5.00).
Sec. 4. In case of any vacancy on said board of education before expiration of term of office by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, change of residence or for Any other reason, then the county executive committee of the political party of the member causing the vacancy shall appoint some eligible person to fill the vacancy for the unexpired term.
Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 30th day of June, 1967.