S.L. 1969-282

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 282

HOUSE BILL 544

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE NOMINATION, ELECTION AND TERMS OF OFFICE OF MEMBERS OF THE WASHINGTON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Washington County Board of Education shall consist of five members who shall be elected by a vote of the people of Washington County on a partisan basis in the same manner as members of the General Assembly. The term of office of each member shall be for four years.

Sec. 2. Two members of the Washington County Board of Education shall reside in Plymouth Township, one in Lees Mill Township, one in Skinnersville Township, and one in Scuppernong Township.

Sec. 3. The terms of office of Sidney J. Hassell, of Lees Mill Township, James H. Ward of Plymouth Township, and Gordon A. Chesson of Skinnersville Township, shall all expire on the first Monday in December, 1970. The terms of office of Joseph H. Peele of Plymouth Township and Alvah W. Alexander, Jr., of Scuppernong Township shall expire on the first Monday in December, 1972. At the primaries and general elections to be held in 1970 and biennially thereafter, as their terms of office expire, the members of the Washington County Board of Education shall be nominated and elected according to the primary and general election laws established for the nomination and election of members of the General Assembly. The successors in office of the members herein named shall reside in the same townships as their predecessors. All vacancies shall be filled by a member who is a resident of the same township as his predecessor.

Sec. 4. The chairman and members of the Washington County Board of Education shall receive the compensation provided for them in Chapter 358 of the Session Laws of 1959.

Sec. 5. Any vacancy on the Washington County Board of Education by reason of death, resignation, change of residence of a member from the township from which nominated and elected, physical inability to perform the duties of his office, or otherwise, shall be filled by the remaining members of said Board of Education for the unexpired term. Said Board of Education shall have such authority, powers and duties as are provided by Chapter 115 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, as amended, and such other powers and duties as may be given to said Board of Education by any public-local or local act. The members so elected under the provisions of this Act shall qualify and take their oaths of office on the first Monday in December following their election.

Sec. 6. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7. 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 22nd day of April, 1969.