GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 783

SENATE BILL 223

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE ENABLING LEGISLATION FOR THE CONSOLIDATION AND MERGER OF THE EDEN CITY SCHOOLS ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT, THE MADISON-MAYODAN ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT, THE REIDSVILLE CITY ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT AND THE ROCKINGHAM COUNTY SCHOOLS ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The purpose of this act is to provide enabling legislation for the consolidation and merger in accordance with provision of, and procedures contained in, Chapter 115C-67 of the General Statutes, of the four administrative school units in Rockingham County into one administrative school unit.

Sec. 2.  The four Boards of Education of the present administrative school units in Rockingham County, namely, the Eden City Board of Education, the Madison-Mayodan City Board of Education, the Reidsville City Board of Education and the Rockingham County Board of Education are hereby authorized and directed to develop in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 115C-67 of the General Statutes a written plan of merger whereby the four present administrative school units in Rockingham County shall be consolidated and merged into one administrative school unit.  This plan of merger shall be approved by each of the present four Boards of Education and shall thereupon be submitted on or before July 1, 1984, to the Board of County Commissioners of Rockingham County for its concurrence and approval as specified in Chapter 115C-67 of the General Statutes.  Upon such concurrence and approval, the plan of merger shall then be submitted to the State Board of Education for its approval as specified in Chapter 115C-67 of the General Statutes.

Sec. 3.  In the event the present four Boards of Education have not submitted such plan of merger to the Board of County Commissioners of Rockingham County on or before July 1, 1984, said Board of County Commissioners shall cause to be held in Rockingham County at the general election in November of 1984, a referendum on the issue whether the Eden City Schools Administrative Unit, the Madison-Mayodan City Schools Administrative Unit, the Reidsville City Schools Administrative Unit, and the Rockingham County School Administrative Unit shall be consolidated and merged into a single County Administrative Unit.  In the event a majority of the votes cast in said referendum shall favor the consolidation and merger of said four administrative school units into a single county administrative unit, additional enabling legislation for such consolidation and merger shall be presented to the General Assembly of North Carolina for its consideration and enactment.  In the event the said four boards of education have submitted such plan or merger to the Board of County Commissioners of Rockingham County on or before July 1, 1984, this Section 3 shall be null, void, and of no effect.

Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of July, 1983.