NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 414

HOUSE BILL 653

 

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

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. The Harnett County Board of Education shall consist of five members who shall serve for terms of four years each, and, for purposes of electing the members of said board, Harnett County is divided into five districts bounded and described as follows:

District No. 1, Averasboro Township.

District No. 2, Grove Township and Duke Township.

District No. 3, Neils Creek Township, Blake River Township, Hectors Creek Township and Buckhorn Township.

District No. 4, Lillington Township, Stewarts Creek Township and Anderson Creek Township.

District No. 5, Upper Little River Township, Barbecue Township and Johnsonville Township.

Sec. 2. The term of office of each member shall be for a period of four years beginning on the first Monday in December, next succeeding his election, and shall continue until a successor has been elected and qualified.

Sec. 3. The terms of office of three of the present members of the Harnett County Board of Education, Hoke Smith, C. L. Corbett, and Alex M. Cameron, shall expire the first Monday in December of 1976, or when their successors are elected and qualified.

Sec. 4. In the primary election to be held in 1976, there shall be nominated by each political party in the party primaries at the same time and in the same general manner as that in which other county officers are nominated, three candidates for nomination as members of the Harnett County Board of Education.  Each person so nominated from the various districts shall be a resident of his said district and shall file with the County Board of Elections of Harnett County a notice of candidacy which shall give the candidate's name, address, place of residence and a statement that he desires to be a candidate for membership on the said Harnett County Board of Education for the district in which he resides.

The names of the persons so nominated by each political party shall be placed on the official county ballots of Harnett County, and shall be voted upon by the qualified voters of the county at large in the general election of 1976, and the three persons receiving the highest number of votes in the general election shall be elected to membership on the Harnett County Board of Education. Biennially thereafter, individuals who are candidates to succeed the members of the Harnett County Board of Education shall be elected for a term of four years in the same manner as herein provided.

Sec. 5. Any vacancy occurring on the Harnett County Board of Education by death, resignation or otherwise shall be filled for the unexpired term by the Harnett County Board of Education, but the person appointed to fill such vacancy must be from the same district as the person whose death, resignation or removal created the vacancy on the said Harnett County Board of Education. Provided, that when any vacancy occurs on the Harnett County Board of Education, the Board of Education shall cause to be published for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in Harnett County a notice that a vacancy exists on the Harnett County Board of Education and will be filled by the Board of Education on a date certain and stated in the advertisement; and, that the qualified voters of Harnett County are invited to suggest and present to the board of education the names of individuals who should be considered for appointment to the Harnett County Board of Education by the board of education.

Sec. 6. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of May, 1975.