NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 702
HOUSE BILL 942

AN ACT APPOINTING MEMBERS OF THE WILSON CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION, PROVIDING FOR THE ELECTION OF THE MEMBERS OF SAID BOARD IN THE FUTURE, FIXING THEIR TERMS OF OFFICE AND COMPENSATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That the Wilson City Board of Education shall consist of seven members. The terms of office of the present members of said board of education shall expire upon the ratification of this Act. F. T. Green and Mrs. Charles King are hereby appointed members of said board of education to serve until their successors shall be elected in 1960, as provided for in this Act. Mrs. J. W. Benson and G. C. Vick are hereby appointed members of said board to serve until their successors shall be elected in 1962 as provided for in this Act. George H. Adams, R. E. Kirkland, Jr., and B. B. Plyler, Jr., are hereby appointed members of said board of education to serve until their successors shall be elected in 1964, as provided for in this Act.
Sec. 2. On the same day as the State‑wide primary to be held in the year 1960, and biennially thereafter, the Wilson County Board of Elections shall conduct a nonpartisan election throughout the Wilson City Administrative School Unit for the election of members of the Wilson City Board of Education whose terms next expire. The successors to the members of said board appointed in Section 1 of this Act shall be elected for terms of six years each. In case of a vacancy caused by death, resignation, failure to qualify or by any other cause, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment of the remaining members of said board until the next regular nonpartisan election for members of said board of education.
Sec. 3. The members of said board of education appointed by this Act and their successors shall qualify by taking the oath of office on or before the second Monday in June next succeeding their election.
Sec. 4. From and after July 1, 1959, the Chairman of the Wilson City Board of Education shall receive as compensation for his services the sum of three hundred dollars ($300.00) per year, payable in equal monthly installments. From and after said date, each of the other members of said board of education shall receive as compensation for his services the sum of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) per year, payable in equal monthly installments.
Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 6. 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 2nd day of June, 1959.