GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

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HOUSE BILL 1667

Short Title:  Alamance-Burlington School Elections.	(Local)

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Sponsors: Representative Allred.

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Referred to:  Ways and Means.

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May 28, 1998

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT A MAJORITY OF MEMBERS OF THE ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON BOARD OF EDUCATION SHALL BE ELECTED IN 1998.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. (a) Section IV of the Plan of Merger of the Alamance County Schools and the Burlington City Schools, dated June 16, 1994, and filed with the Secretary of State on March 20, 1996, under G.S. 115C-67 reads as rewritten:
"IV.  Establishment of the Permanent Board of Education.
The Alamance County and Burlington City Boards of Education shall continue until the effective date of merger, July 1, 1996 at which time those boards and their respective school districts will cease to exist and the interim board will become the Alamance-Burlington Board of Education for the merged districts.  Members of the permanent board of education shall be elected for terms of four years on a nonpartisan basis.
The first election will take place on November 3, 1998.   Vacancies on the permanent board shall be filled in accordance with G.S. 115C-37.
The terms of office of four board members shall be extended until December 1, 1998.  The terms of office for three board members shall be extended until December 1, 2000.  Determination of the term of extension for individual board members will be based upon total length of service of individual board members with the members having the longest terms having the shortest extension.
The Alamance-Burlington Board of Education shall have authority and powers as stipulated in 115C of the General Statutes of North Carolina."
(b) Filing for the Alamance-Burlington Board of Education for the 1998 election shall be reopened during the same period that filing for members of the United States House of Representatives is reopened in order that persons may have an opportunity to file for the four seats that will now be up for election in 1998.  Candidates who filed during the previous filing period in 1998 do not have to file again.
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.