NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 100

HOUSE BILL 307

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS ON THE CHAPEL HILL CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION FROM SIX TO SEVEN.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 2 of Chapter 254 of the Session Laws of 1955 is hereby deleted and the following substituted in lieu thereof:

"Sec. 2. The present members of the Chapel Hill City Board of Education shall constitute the governing body of the Chapel Hill Administrative School Unit through June 30, 1959. Beginning on July 1, 1959, the board shall be composed of seven members, elected by the qualified voters as hereinafter specified. At the election on May 5, 1959, and at every third biennial election thereafter three members shall be elected for terms of six years to begin on July 1 following their election. At all other biennial elections two members shall be elected for six year terms, to begin on July I following their election. The four present members of the board whose terms extend beyond June 30, 1959, shall serve until the expiration of their respective present terms."

Sec. 2. This Act shall not invalidate any notice of election, notice to candidates, or notice of registration and challenge procedures heretofore given preliminary to the May 5, 1959, election, except insofar as such notice specified that only two persons are to be elected to the board. The Orange County Board of Elections shall cause to be published once each week for two weeks following ratification of this Act, in some newspaper of general circulation in the Chapel Hill Administrative School Unit and the Carrboro School Attendance Area, a notice that three persons, rather than two, are to be elected to the board at the May 5, 1959, election. Such notice may be published separately or combined with any other notice published by the board; and in either event such notice shall be conclusively presumed to be sufficient notice of the fact that three persons will be elected to the board.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. 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 19th day of March, 1959.