GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 236

SENATE BILL 642

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION OF THE WILSON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION FROM SEVEN SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS, AS PROVIDED BY COURT ORDER.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 4 of Chapter 921, Session Laws of 1983 is rewritten to read:

"Sec. 4. (a) The Board of Education of Wilson County shall consist of seven members, to be elected in the general election.  In the general election of 1988 and quadrennially thereafter, members shall be elected from Districts 2, 4, and 6 for four-year terms.  In the general election of 1990 and quadrennially thereafter, members shall be elected from Districts 1, 3, 5, and 7 for four-year terms.

(b)       Elections shall be nonpartisan, with the results determined by plurality in accordance with G.S. 163-292.  In each district, the qualified voters of that district shall elect a candidate who resides in the district.

(c)       Candidates shall file notices of candidacy for each election during the period beginning at noon on the second Monday in July and ending at noon on the second Monday in August of the year of the election, and except as provided by this subsection, filing shall be in accordance with general law.

(d)       The boundaries of the districts shall be the same as those established in the consent decree in the case of United States of America v. Wilson County Board of Education, et al, case 86-889-CIV-5, United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Raleigh Division, dated September 15, 1986.

(e)       Vacancies in the Wilson County Board of Education shall be filled by appointment by the remaining members of the Board.  The person so appointed must reside in the district of the vacating member, and shall serve for the remainder of the unexpired term.

(f)        Terms of office of the Wilson County Board of Education begin on the second Monday in January following their election."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 25th day of May, 1987.