NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 865
HOUSE BILL 1109

AN ACT TO SUBMIT TO THE VOTERS OF HOKE COUNTY THE QUESTION OF WHETHER THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF HOKE COUNTY SHALL BE ELECTED FOR FOUR YEAR TERMS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. At the general election to be held in Hoke County in 1964, there shall be submitted to the qualified and registered voters of said County the question of whether the members of the Board of Education of Hoke County shall be elected for staggered four‑year terms. Separate ballots for this purpose, in the usual form for submitting propositions at county elections, shall be prepared and provided to each qualified and registered voter voting. The proposition shall be submitted in substantially the following language and form:
"Vote by marking an (X) in the square to the left of your choice:
"[ ]	FOR	electing members of the Board of Education for staggered four‑year terms.
"[ ]	AGAINST	electing members of the Board of Education for staggered four‑year terms."
Sec. 2. Should a majority of the voters voting on the proposition as set forth in Section 1 determine that the members of the Board of Education for Hoke County shall be elected by the voters of the County for alternating terms of four (4) years, the following provisions relating thereto shall be applicable.
(a)	In the primary election to be held in Hoke County in 1964, 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 five (5) candidates for nomination as members of the Board of Education of Hoke County. The names of the persons so nominated by each political party shall be placed on the official county ballots of Hoke County, and shall be voted upon by the qualified voters of the County at large in the general election of 1964.
(b)	The two (2) members of the Board of Education of Hoke County elected at the general election in 1964, who receive the highest number of votes of those elected to said Board, shall be declared elected for terms of four (4) years each, and the other three (3) members of the said Board elected at the general election in 1964 shall be declared elected for terms of two (2) years each.
(c)	At the general election in 1966, and biennially thereafter, successors to those members of the Board of Education of Hoke County whose terms have expired shall be elected for terms of four (4) years each.
(d)	Any vacancy occurring in the said Board of Education by death, resignation or otherwise shall be filled as is now provided by State law for the filling of vacancies in County Boards of Education, but such person appointed to fill the vacancy shall be appointed for the remainder of the unexpired term of the person creating the vacancy.
Sec. 3. The members of the Board of Education elected in the general elections in the year 1964, and biennially thereafter, shall hold office for a period of four (4) years and until their successors are elected and qualified. Terms shall commence upon March 1st of the year following the year of the general election, unless the General Assembly shall otherwise provide.
Sec. 4. If a majority of the voters voting on the proposition submitted as set forth in Section 1 of this Act shall determine that members of the Board of Education of Hoke County shall not be elected for staggered terms of four (4) years, then Sections 2 and 3 of this Act shall be null and void.
Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with 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 12th day of June, 1963.