A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to adapt the installation date of newly elected members of the nash‑rocky mount board of education to the recently enacted later date for the election canvass.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Sections 11 through 14 of Chapter 391 of the 1991 Session Laws read as rewritten:
"Sec. 11.  (a)	In the year 1994, and each two years thereafter, the members of the Nash‑Rocky Mount Board of Education shall be elected for four‑year terms of office on a nonpartisan basis as provided in Chapter 115C and Chapter 163 of the General Statutes, with the results determined in accordance with G.S. 163‑293.  The runoff election shall be held on the first Tuesday in December.  The two Boards of Elections shall adopt a special absentee voting timetable for the runoff.  The filing period shall be from noon on the first Friday in July until noon on the first Friday in August.  Elections shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.  Persons elected to the Nash‑Rocky Mount Board of Education shall take office on the second Monday in December following their election, and the terms of their office shall date and extend from that time, unless a runoff election occurs, in which case the person or persons elected in the runoff shall take office on the first Monday in January.
(b)	No person shall be eligible to file for, or be elected to, the Nash‑Rocky Mount Board of Education, or to serve thereon, unless he or she is a qualified voter and resident of the district from which he or she seeks to be elected. Candidates shall be voted on by the electors residing in the district from which they seek election."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.