NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 102

HOUSE BILL 382

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 856, SESSION LAWS OF 1963, PROVIDING FOR THE ELECTION AND TERMS OF OFFICE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE RALEIGH CITY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT TO CONFORM THE DATE OF ELECTION TO THE REGULAR MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS TO BE HELD FOR THE CITY OF RALEIGH.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Chapter 856, Session Laws of 1963, is hereby amended by rewriting Section 1 to read as follows:

"Section 1. Presently incumbent members of the Board of Education of the Raleigh City School Administrative Unit hold terms of office as follows: W. Casper Holroyd, Jr., a term to expire July 1, 1975; H. Gilliam Nicholson, a term to expire July 1, 1975; Mrs. Betsy G. Runkle, a term to expire July 1, 1975; Walter L. Brown, Jr., a term to expire July 1, 1973; Mrs. William M. Craven, a term to expire July 1, 1973; J. C. Knowles, a term to expire July 1, 1973; and Vernon Malone, a term to expire July 1, 1973. The current terms of the aforementioned members of the Board of Education are hereby extended until such time as their successors are elected and qualify under the provisions of Section 2 of this act."

Sec. 2. Chapter 856, Session Laws of 1963, is further amended by rewriting Section 2 thereof to read as follows:

"Sec. 2. The Board of Education of the Raleigh City School Administrative Unit shall consist of seven (7) members. At the regular municipal elections to be held in and for the City of Raleigh in November 1973, there shall be elected four members of the Board of Education to succeed those four members of the Board of Education whose terms were previously slated to expire on July 1, 1973. The terms of the four members of the Board of Education elected in the municipal elections held in November 1973 shall be for a term of four (4) years commencing on the first Monday in December following the election and until their successors are elected and qualify. In the municipal elections held in November 1975 and biennially thereafter, there shall be elected the number of members equal to the number of members whose terms next expire during the year of such election, such members to be elected for the terms of four (4) years commencing on the first Monday in December following the election and until their successors are elected and qualify."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This act shall be effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of March, 1973.