NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 892
HOUSE BILL 1505

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 26 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF 1935, AS AMENDED BY CHAPTER 700 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1943, AND AS AMENDED BY CHAPTER 56 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1949, AND AS FURTHER AMENDED BY CHAPTER 342 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1957, RELATING TO APPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL MEMBER OF THE LEXINGTON CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Section 2 of Chapter 26 of the Private Laws of 1935, as amended by Chapter 700 of the Session Laws of 1943 and by Chapter 56 of the Session Laws of 1949 and by Chapter 342 of the Session Laws of 1957, is hereby further amended by rewriting said Section 2 so as to read as follows:
"Sec. 2. The Lexington City Board of Education shall be composed of seven members. Six of the members shall be appointed by the City Council of the City of Lexington. The City Council shall appoint one member to the Board of Education from each of the five wards of the City of Lexington and one member from the territory of the Lexington City School Administrative Unit at large, each of whom shall serve for the term appointed or until their successors are appointed and qualified. One of the members of the Board of Education must reside within the jurisdictional area of the Lexington City School Administrative Unit and must reside outside of the corporate limits of the City of Lexington as same may exist from time to time. The member residing outside of the corporate limits of the City of Lexington and within the limits of the Lexington City School Administrative Unit shall be appointed by the Board of County Commissioners of Davidson County. If a Board of County Commissioners shall fail to make this appointment within 60 days after receiving a resolution from the City Council requesting that it be made, the City Council may then make this appointment. All members of the Board of Education shall be appointed for three-year terms. The terms of all members of the Lexington City Board of Education as it is now constituted shall remain in full force and effect under the provisions of Chapter 342 of the 1957 Session Laws of the State of North Carolina, and this act is in no way to repeal any such prior appointed term. No member of the Board of Education may serve for more than two consecutive full terms without an intervening period of three years. All vacancies occurring on said Board shall be filled for the unexpired term by the City Council if the vacancy be one for a member residing within the corporate limits of the City of Lexington, and if the member be residing outside the corporate limits of the City of Lexington, then the vacancy shall be appointed by the Board of County Commissioners of Davidson County provided for hereinabove. The appointment of the additional member provided for in this act shall be appointed by the Board of County Commissioners of Davidson County within 60 days from and after the effective date of the ratification of this act for a term which shall expire on the second Monday in December of 1977."
Sec. 2. This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of February, 1974.