NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 662
SENATE BILL 78

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 115-25 RELATIVE TO THE ELIGIBILITY TO SCHOOL EMPLOYEES AND DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEMBERS TO SERVE ON BOARDS OF EDUCATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The first paragraph of G.S. 115-25 as the same appears in Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes is hereby rewritten as follows:
"§ 115-25.  Eligibility for board membership; holding other offices. — Any person possessing the qualifications for election to public office set forth in Article VI, Section 6 of the Constitution of North Carolina shall be eligible to serve as a member of a county or city board of education. Provided, however, that any person elected or appointed to a county or city board of education, and also employed by that board of education or appointed to a district committee by that board of education, shall resign his employment before taking office as a member of that board of education."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of June, 1977.