GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 76
HOUSE BILL 508

AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NONPARTISAN ELECTION OF THE TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION FROM THE DATE OF THE PRIMARY TO THE DATE OF THE GENERAL ELECTION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 1 of Chapter 157, Session Laws of 1975, as amended by Section 1 of Chapter 102, Session Laws of 1993, reads as rewritten:
"Section 1.  The Board of Education of Transylvania County shall consist of five members who shall be elected in a nonpartisan election.  The election shall be held and conducted in accordance with the general laws governing elections for county officers, except as otherwise provided herein.  The election shall be held on the date of the county general election, with the results determined on a plurality basis in accordance with G.S. 163-292.  Notices of candidacy shall be filed not earlier than 12:00 noon on the first Monday in June, and not later than 12:00 noon on the last Friday in June.
As the terms of the present members expire, beginning with the primary and election to be held in 1976, and every two years thereafter, members of the Board of Education shall be elected for terms of four years."
Sec. 2.  This act applies beginning with the 1996 election.  
Sec. 3.  This act applies to Transylvania County only.
Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of May, 1995.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives