NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 553
HOUSE BILL 1324

AN ACT TO FILL A CURRENT VACANCY AND TO AMEND SECTION 5, CHAPTER 314, SESSION LAWS OF 1961, WITH RESPECT TO FILLING VACANCIES OF THE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION IN JACKSON COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Consistent with the April 16, 1973, unanimous endorsement of the Jackson County Democratic Executive Committee and under what is here specifically recognized as the currently applicable law (SL 1961, c. 314, s.5 and SL 1955, c. 1372, art. 5, s. 7 incorporated by reference), Mrs. Elizabeth P. Dewees is hereby appointed to serve the unexpired portion of her late husband's term as a member of the Jackson County Board of Education. After the effective date of this act, such vacancies shall be filled according to the provisions of Section 2 as follows.
Sec. 2. Section 5, Chapter 314, Session Laws of 1961, is rewritten as follows:
"Sec. 5. Any vacancy occurring on the Jackson County Board of Education by a death, resignation, or otherwise, shall be filled by a person appointed by the remaining members of the Board of Education who shall appoint the person nominated by the Executive Committee of the political party of which the individual was a member, but such person, or persons, appointed to fill the vacancy shall be from the same district as the person whose death, resignation or removal created the vacancy on the board. If a person who has been nominated as a candidate from any district dies or removes himself, or for any other reason cannot be a candidate in the general election, a candidate shall be appointed from the district which such person represented by the Executive Committee of the political party of which the dead or disqualified candidate was a member. Such appointee shall have his name placed upon the ballot to be voted upon in the general election the same as any candidate who has been nominated in the primary."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of May, 1973.