A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT requiring the lincoln county board of education to revise its residency districts after each census as if they were electoral districts.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Section 3 of Chapter 876 of the 1973 Session Laws, as rewritten by S.L. 2002‑22, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 3. (a)	  The newly constituted and established Lincoln County Board of Education shall consist of seven members, and each of said members shall be residents and qualified voters of the districts according to the membership allocations hereinafter made as follows:
(1)	North Brook Township, 
(2)	The area of Howard's Creek Township outside the city limits of Lincolnton, 
(3)	The area of Lincolnton Township outside the city limits of Lincolnton, 
(4)	The area inside the city limits of Lincolnton, 
(5)	The area of Ironton Township outside the city limits of Lincolnton, and 
(6)	Catawba Springs Township.
Each district shall each be entitled to one member on the Lincoln County Board of Education. For the purpose of this section, the city limits of the City of Lincolnton are as of the opening of candidate filing.
One member shall be elected from the county at large, without regard to township.
(b)	The Lincoln County Board of Education shall revise the district boundaries set out in subsection (a) of this section after each federal census as provided by this subsection, beginning in 2011, so as to correct population imbalances among the districts. After revising district boundaries under this subsection, the board of education shall not revise them again until a new federal census of population is taken. The population of each district shall be within five percent (5%) of the ideal population, being one‑sixth of the total population of the county."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.