NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 99

HOUSE BILL 306

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 72, SESSION LAWS OF 1943, BY LOCATING AND FIXING THE VOTING WARD BOUNDARIES FOR THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS TO THE HICKORY CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION AND PRESCRIBING THE PROCEDURE FOR SUCH ELECTIONS.

 

WHEREAS, Chapter 72 of the Session Laws of 1943 provides that the Hickory City Administrative School Unit be divided into six voting wards from each of which there shall be elected a member, therein designated a "Trustee", to the Hickory City Board of Education, as the said board is now named and styled by G. S. 115-27, and provides further for the election of a member, or trustee, at large by the voters of the entire unit; and

WHEREAS, the said Act designates the said school voting wards by identifying numbers and specifies in part that the numbered wards shall include the areas embraced in the like numbered wards of the City of Hickory, and further provides that elections for school trustees be held at the same times and places with the same election officials as the elections for city officials in the Hickory municipal elections; and

WHEREAS, there is currently before the North Carolina General Assembly a bill sponsored by the City Council of the City of Hickory which will change the numbers and areas of the city voting wards and make it imperative that the school voting wards be changed in conformity therewith: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Chapter 72 of the Session Laws of 1943 is hereby amended by striking out Sections 2 and 3 of said Chapter, and substituting in lieu thereof the following:

"Sec. 2. (a) Ward One. The boundaries of school ward number one shall include that part of the Hickory City Administrative School Unit which is embraced within ward number one of the City of Hickory and the area lying between the Hickory city limits and the perimeter of the Hickory City Administrative School Unit and between extensions of the western and southeastern boundary lines of ward number one of the City of Hickory as the said lines may be extended, located, fixed and published by the Hickory City Board of Education.

"Walter T. Nau, whose term of office expires on the 30th day of June, 1959, is now the trustee representing this ward, and at the time of the regular Hickory municipal election of 1959, his successor shall be elected by the qualified voters of ward number one to serve for a term of five years.

"(b)      Ward Two. The boundaries of school ward number two shall include that part of the Hickory City Administrative School Unit which is embraced within ward number two of the City of Hickory and the area lying between the Hickory city limits and the perimeter of the Hickory City Administrative School Unit and between extensions of the northwestern and southwestern boundary lines of ward number two of the City of Hickory as the said lines may be extended, located, fixed and published by the Hickory City Board of Education.

"Everette M. Eckard, whose term of office expires on the 30th day of June, 1962, is now the school trustee representing this ward, and at the time of the regular Hickory municipal election of 1962, his successor shall be elected by the qualified voters of ward number two to serve for a term of five years.

"(c)      Ward Three. The boundaries of school ward number three shall include that part of the Hickory City Administrative School Unit which is embraced within ward number three of the City of Hickory and the area lying between the Hickory city limits and the perimeter of the Hickory City Administrative School Unit and between extensions of the eastern and western boundary lines of ward number three of the City of Hickory as the said lines may be extended, located, fixed and published by the Hickory City Board of Education.

"Charles H. Grove, whose term of office expires on the 30th day of June, 1962, is now the school trustee representing this ward, and at the time of the regular Hickory municipal election of 1962, his successor shall be elected by the qualified voters of ward number three to serve for a term of five years.

"(d)      Ward Four. The boundaries of school ward number four shall include that part of the Hickory City Administrative School Unit which is embraced within ward number four of the City of Hickory and the area lying between the Hickory city limits and the perimeter of the Hickory City Administrative School Unit and between extensions of the eastern and western boundary lines of ward number four of the City of Hickory as the said lines may be extended, located, fixed and published by the Hickory City Board of Education.

"Theodore R. Brewer, whose term of office expires on the 30th day of June, 1961, is now the school trustee representing this ward, and at the time of the regular Hickory municipal election of 1961 his successor shall be elected by the qualified voters of ward number four to serve for a term of five years.

"(e)      Ward Five. The boundaries of school ward number five shall include that part of the Hickory City Administrative School Unit which is embraced within ward number five of the City of Hickory and the area lying between the Hickory city limits and the perimeter of the Hickory City Administrative School Unit and between extensions of the southeastern and northeastern boundary lines of ward number five of the City of Hickory as the said lines may be extended, located, fixed and published by the Hickory City Board of Education.

"Clarence G. Howard, whose term of office expires on the 30th day of June, 1962, is now the school trustee representing this ward, and at the time of the regular Hickory municipal election of 1962 his successor shall be elected by the qualified voters of ward number five to serve for a term of five years.

"(f)      Ward Six. The boundaries of school ward number six shall include that part of the Hickory City Administrative School Unit which is embraced within ward number six of the City of Hickory and the area lying between the Hickory city limits and the perimeter of the Hickory City Administrative School Unit and between extensions of the western and eastern boundary lines of ward number six of the City of Hickory as the said lines may be extended, located, fixed and published by the Hickory City Board of Education.

"E. M. Fennell, whose term of office expires on the 30th day of June, 1960, is now the school trustee representing this ward, and at the time of the regular Hickory municipal election of 1960 his successor shall be elected by the qualified voters of ward number six to serve for a term of five years.

"(g)      Within 30 days following the effective date of this Act the Hickory City Board of Education shall cause to be published in a daily newspaper of general circulation in the City of Hickory a notice specifying the boundaries of the areas embraced within the school voting wards together with the designations thereof as hereinbefore provided, and the said notice shall be so published on three separate days prior to the close of the next ensuing voter registration period preceding the next election for a member or members of the Hickory City Board of Education. Notice of any subsequent changes in the boundaries of the school voting wards made pursuant to the authority herein contained shall likewise be so published.

"Sec. 3. J. Marvin Clay, whose term of office expires on the 30th day of June, 1963, is now the school trustee elected by the voters at large in the Hickory City Administrative School Unit, and at the time of the regular election of 1963 his successor shall be elected by the qualified voters of the entire administrative school unit to serve for a term of five years."

Sec. 2. Chapter 72 of the Session Laws of 1943 is further amended by adding at the end of Section 4 the following:

"The City Council of the City of Hickory is hereby empowered and authorized to order a new registration for any school voting ward or wards from time to time as it may deem necessary or advisable, the said registration to be effected and conducted in the same way and manner as registrations for the regular Hickory municipal elections."

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. 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 19th day of March, 1959.