NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 417

HOUSE BILL 803

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT MEMBERS OF THE ALLEGHANY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION SHALL BE ELECTED IN A PARTISAN PRIMARY AND ELECTION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Beginning with the primary and general election in 1976 and every two years thereafter, the members of the Alleghany County Board of Education shall be nominated and elected, as the terms of the members expire, in a partisan primary and election, which shall be held at the same time as the regular primary and election for county officers, and shall be held and conducted pursuant to the provisions contained in Chapter 163 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, regulating primaries and elections.

Sec. 2. The terms of the present members shall be extended or shortened, if necessary, to conform with this act.  The terms of the members of the county board of education shall continue to be staggered as presently constituted.

Sec. 3. The Alleghany County Board of Elections shall, upon ratification of this act, notify those incumbents whose terms of office will expire in 1976.

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of May, 1975.