GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1995 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 71

HOUSE BILL 628

 

AN ACT TO CHANGE THE TIME OF ELECTION OF THE AVERY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION FROM NOVEMBER TO MAY, AND TO PROVIDE THAT THAT BOARD SHALL TAKE OFFICE IN JULY OF THE YEAR OF THEIR ELECTION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 2 of Chapter 146, Session Laws of 1973, as rewritten by Chapter 105 of the Session Laws of 1991, reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 2.  Beginning in 1992 1996 and biennially thereafter, the election for members of the Avery County Board of Education shall be held at the same time as the general election regular primary for county officers, and shall be conducted on a nonpartisan plurality basis, with the results determined in accordance with G.S. 163-292.  Candidates shall file notice of candidacy not earlier than 12:00 noon on the first Friday in July, and not later than 12:00 noon on the first Friday in August. at the same time as candidates for county office under G.S. 163-106."

Sec. 2.  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 4 and 5 of Chapter 146, Session Laws of 1973, beginning in 1996 terms of office of the members of the Avery County Board of Education commence on the first Monday in July of the year of their election, except if that date is the Fourth of July, then the terms commence on the second Monday in July.

(b)       Terms of office of members of the Avery County Board of Education elected in 1992 and 1994 shall expire on the date set by subsection (a) of this section for their successors to take office.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 8th day of May, 1995.

 

 

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Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

 

 

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Harold J. Brubaker

Speaker of the House of Representatives