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, and providing for elections of the board of trustees for roanoke rapids graded school district.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

PART I. nash‑rocky mount board of education
SECTION 1.  Section 11 of Chapter 391 of the 1991 Session Laws reads 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."
PART II. ROANOKE RAPIDS GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT
SECTION 2.  Beginning with the November 2007 election, the Board of Trustees for Roanoke Rapids Graded School District shall be elected in nonpartisan elections held in odd‑numbered years as provided in this Part.
SECTION 3.  The Board of Trustees shall consist of nine members elected at large for six‑year terms.  Three members shall be elected in 2007 and every two years thereafter.
SECTION 4.  The period of filing of candidates for the Board of Trustees for Roanoke Rapids Graded School District shall be the same as the offices for the City of Roanoke Rapids.
SECTION 5.  If a vacancy occurs on the Board of Trustees for Roanoke Rapids Graded School District, the remaining members of the board shall appoint a person to fill that seat. The person appointed to fill the vacancy shall serve the remainder of the unexpired term of the office.
SECTION 6.  The trustees so elected shall qualify, and their terms of office shall begin at the first regular scheduled board meeting in December immediately following their election in November in the year in which the election to their respective offices shall be held.
SECTION 7.  The trustees at their first meeting in December of 2007 shall elect from among their number a chairman who shall serve for the two following years, and that thereafter at the first meeting in December after each election they shall elect a chairman to serve for the two following years unless the present chairman's term has not expired.
SECTION 8.  The Board of Trustees of Roanoke Rapids Graded School District now holding office shall serve with the same powers, duties, and authorities as now held and exercised by them until the trustees herein provided for shall have been qualified.
SECTION 9.  Nothing in this Part shall be construed to change or alter the said Roanoke Rapids Graded School District, or the duties or powers of its trustees, except the manner of their election, the time of their election, and the term of their office.
SECTION 10.  All persons residing within the limits of the said Roanoke Rapids Graded School District qualified to vote in the general State and county elections shall be considered as qualified voters in elections herein provided for trustees.
SECTION 11.  Chapter 42 of the Private Laws of 1931 and Chapter 177 of the Private Laws of 1933 are repealed.
SECTION 12.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 10th day of July, 2006.

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

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		 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives