NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 71

SENATE BILL 190

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 716, SESSION LAWS OF 1947, RELATING TO THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CONCORD CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Section 3 of Chapter 716, Session Laws of 1947, is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"Sec. 3. At the election next ensuing for election of Aldermen and Mayor for the City of Concord, and biennially thereafter, there shall be elected by the qualified voters of the City of Concord on a non- partisan basis the members of the Concord City Board of Education. Said Board membership shall consist of the number equal to the number of wards in the City of Concord at the time of the nomination of said members plus one additional member who shall be designated as the member-at-large. Each member, except said member-at-large, shall be a resident of each existing ward.

"The majority, and if there be an even number, at least one-half of the candidates, including the member-at-large, receiving the largest number of votes shall be declared elected for a term of four years. The remaining candidates receiving the next largest number of votes shall be declared elected for a term of two years. Thereafter, biennially, there shall be elected members of the Concord City Board of Education to succeed the members whose terms next expire, and all terms of office shall thereafter be for a term of four years.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. 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 13th day of March, 1969.