NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 151

HOUSE BILL 351

 

 

AN ACT TO APPOINT TRUSTEES OF THE TRYON CITY ADMINISTRATIVE SCHOOL UNIT IN POLK COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly Of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. W. L. Hague, J. T. Mize, John Cowan, John Z. Preston and Ralph Lawrence are hereby appointed Trustees of the Tryon City Administrative School Unit for terms of two years each, beginning on the first Monday in April, 1961, and ending on the first Monday in April, 1963, or until their successors are appointed and qualified. All vacancies in the membership of said Board of Trustees by death, resignation, or otherwise, shall be filled by the action of the county executive committee of the political party of the member causing such vacancy, until the meeting of the next regular Session of the General Assembly, and then for the residue of the unexpired term of that body. All vacancies that are not filled by the county executive committee under the authority herein contained within thirty (30) days from the occurrence of such vacancies shall be filled by appointment by the State Board of Education. The persons herein appointed trustees of said school unit must qualify by taking the oath of office on or before the second Monday in May, 1961. A failure to qualify within that time shall constitute a vacancy. Those persons elected or appointed to fill a vacancy must qualify within thirty (30) days after notification thereof. A failure to qualify within that time shall constitute a vacancy. The trustees herein appointed shall be subject to the provisions of the State School Administrative Act governing trustees.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. 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 31st day of March, 1961.