NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 692

HOUSE BILL 861

 

 

AN ACT TO DIVIDE LEE COUNTY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT INTO FOUR DISTRICTS AND ESTABLISH THE METHOD OF NOMINATING MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION THEREOF.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. For the purpose of nominating members of the Board of Education of Lee County, the county is divided into four districts designated as follows:

(1)       District Number One shall be composed of Deep River Township and that part of East Sanford Township not included in the Sanford Administrative Unit.

(2)       District Number Two shall be composed of Cape Fear Township and that part of Jonesboro Township not included in the Sanford Administrative Unit.

(3)       District Number Three shall be composed of Greenwood and Pocket Townships.

(4)       District Number Four shall be composed of West Sanford Township and that part of East Sanford Township and Jonesboro Township not included in the Lee County Administrative Unit.

In the primary elections to be held in Lee County in the year 1966, there shall be nominated by each political party one candidate for membership on the Board of Education of Lee County from District Number One and one candidate from District Number Four; and in 1968, one candidate by each political party for membership on said board from District Number Three and also one candidate for membership from District Number Four; and in the year 1970 there shall be nominated by each political party one candidate for membership on said board from District Number Two, all of said districts being as hereinbefore designated; and the present members of Lee County Board of Education, namely: J. Glenn Edwards, Stacy Budd, Douglas H. Wilkinson, W. C. Harward and J. B. Cameron, shall serve out the term to which they have heretofore respectively been elected and appointed and are now serving. The primary election shall be conducted under the same rules and regulations as are now provided by law for the nomination of other county officers from Lee County. The candidate from each of the political parties shall be voted for by the electors of Lee County voting as a whole, and the candidate from each of the said districts receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared the nominee of his party for said office.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. 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 25th day of May, 1965.