GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

 SESSION 2011

SESSION LAW 2012-106

HOUSE BILL 1071

AN ACT to provide for the date for the organizational meeting of the wake county board of education to be governed by general law.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 9 of Chapter 717 of the Session Laws of 1975, as amended by Chapter 952 of the Session Laws of 1983 and S.L. 2011-138, reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 9. In June or July of each year, the The Wake County Board of Education, acting jointly and by a majority vote of all members present, shall elect a chair to preside at meetings and a vice-chair to preside at meetings in the absence of the chair; and the chair and vice-chair shall have a vote on all matters considered by the Wake County Board of Education. All vacancies occurring in the membership of the Wake County Board of Education by reason of death, resignation, removal of residence from the district from which elected, or for any cause whatsoever, shall be filled by the remaining members of said board by appointing a member from the voting district creating the vacancy for the unexpired term. The Wake County Board of Education shall have all power and authority as a Board of Education as herein conferred and as are conferred by the General Statutes of North Carolina on boards of education in general."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective December 1, 2012.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 28^th day of June, 2012.

                                                                    s/  Walter H. Dalton

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/  Thom Tillis

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives