A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide for the partisan election of the members of the cherokee county board of education.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Section 8 of Chapter 502 of the 1975 Session Laws is repealed.
SECTION 2.  Section 2 of Chapter 502 of the 1975 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 2.  The Board of Education of Cherokee County shall consist of seven members, all of whom shall be elected by the voters of the entire county."
SECTION 3.  Section 10 of Chapter 502 of the 1975 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 10.  All vacancies occurring on the Board of Education of Cherokee County by death, resignation, removal from office, change of residence, or otherwise, for positions elected on a nonpartisan basis in 2012 or 2014 shall be filled within 20 days of such vacancy by the remaining members of said board of education and for the unexpired term."
SECTION 4.  Beginning in 2016, the members of Cherokee County Board of Education shall be elected on a partisan basis at the time of the general election in each even‑numbered year as terms expire. Candidates for election to the Cherokee County Board of Education shall be nominated at the same time and manner as other county officers. Members elected shall take office and qualify on the first Monday in December of the year of their election and the terms of their predecessors shall expire at that same time.
Vacancies on the Cherokee County Board of Education for positions elected on a partisan basis shall be filled in accordance with G.S. 115C‑37.1.
SECTION 5.  Effective the first Monday in December of 2016, G.S. 115C‑37.1(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d)	This section shall apply only in the following counties: Alleghany, Brunswick, Cherokee, Graham, Guilford, Harnett, Lee, New Hanover, Vance, and Washington."
SECTION 6.  This act does not affect the terms of office of any person elected in 2012 or 2014 to the Cherokee County Board of Education.
SECTION 7.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are repealed to the extent of the conflict.
SECTION 8.  Except as otherwise provided, this act is effective when it becomes law.