NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1025

SENATE BILL 1330

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A NON-PARTISAN ELECTION FOR MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE FAIRMONT ADMINISTRATIVE SCHOOL UNIT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Board of Trustees of the Fairmont Administrative School Unit shall be composed of seven members who shall be elected for a four-year term of office by the qualified voters of the Unit at large as hereinafter provided.

At the time of the regular primary election for county officers to be held in 1974, there shall be elected four members of the Board of Trustees in a non-partisan election. There shall be no primary election. The names of the candidates shall be printed on a separate ballot without reference to any party affiliation. Candidates shall file notice of candidacy at the same time as candidates for county office, and the election shall be conducted, insofar as practicable, as elections for county officers; provided, however, that absentee ballots shall not be permitted.

Beginning with the election to be held under this act in 1974, and every four years thereafter, four members of the Board of Trustees shall be elected to serve for terms of four years. The four candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected.

At the election to be held under this act in 1976, and every four years thereafter, three members of the Board of Trustees shall be elected for terms of four years. The three candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected.

The members elected shall take office on July 1, following their election, and shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified. Any vacancy occurring on the Board for any cause shall be filled for the unexpired term by some person appointed by the remaining members of the Board.

Sec. 2.  Mr. James R. Oliver, Mr. Kenneth Hardin and Mrs. Ellen Floyd, or their successors in case of a vacancy, shall continue to serve until July 1, 1976.

Sec. 3.  All local and special acts, and all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of March, 1974.