GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 886
HOUSE BILL 2221

AN ACT TO REVISE THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM FOR THE CLINTON CITY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT TO REFLECT A CONSENT JUDGEMENT IN THE FEDERAL CASE OF HALL V. KENNEDY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Effective beginning with the first regular meeting of the Clinton City Board of Education in July of 1990, that board consists of six members.
Sec. 2.  Three members of the Clinton City Board of Education shall be elected in 1990 and quadrennially thereafter for four-year terms.  Three members of the Clinton City Board of Education shall be elected in 1992 and quadrennially thereafter for four-year terms.
Sec. 3.  The election shall take place at the same time as the primary election for county officers, shall be conducted on a nonpartisan basis, with the results determined by plurality in accordance with G.S. 163-292.
Sec. 4.  At each election, all candidates for the three seats on the board shall be listed together on a single ballot, and each voter shall be instructed and allowed to vote for not more than one candidate.
Sec. 5.  If a member of the board dies, resigns or otherwise leaves office, the remaining members shall appoint a person to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the unexpired term.  A person appointed to fill a vacancy may reside anywhere within the Clinton City School Administrative Unit.
Sec. 6.  Newly elected board members shall take office at the first regular meeting in July following their election. At the first meeting of the newly elected board in 1990, and annually thereafter, the board shall choose one of its own members to chair the board for a one-year term.  The member chosen to chair the board may vote on all matters coming before the board the same as any other members.
Sec. 7.  Incumbent board members Bryant, Bell, and Woodall, whose terms do not expire in 1992, shall be entitled to serve the remainder of those terms.
Sec. 8.  Except as provided by this act, the applicable provisions of Chapters 115C and 163 of the General Statutes shall continue to apply to elections of the Clinton City Board of Education.
Sec. 9.  Chapter 317, Session Laws of 1975, is repealed.
Sec. 10.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 10th day of July, 1990.