A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to change the filing period for the rowan‑salisbury board of education.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Section C of Article V of A PLAN FOR MERGER OF THE ROWAN COUNTY SCHOOL AND THE SALISBURY CITY SCHOOLS, as amended by Section 2 of Chapter 890 of the 1987 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"C.	Permanent Board of Education – At the expiration of the terms of the at‑large seats on the initially elected Board of Education, those at‑large seats will lose all district designation. However, no more than two (2) members of the Board from the same high school attendance zone shall serve on the Board at any one time. In subsequent elections for the district 6 seat, only persons who are residents of Rowan County who live outside the attendance zone of the person holding the district 7 seat may be candidates. In subsequent elections for the district 7 seat, only persons who are residents of Rowan County who live outside the attendance zone of the person holding the district 6 seat may be candidates. In each of the other districts, only a person who is a resident of the attendance zone specified for a particular seat may be a candidate for that seat. Each seat shall appear separately on the ballot, but all the qualified voters of the entire county are eligible to vote on all the seats. All terms for the permanent Board will be four (4) years with elections to be held on a non‑partisan basis as provided in Chapter 163 of the General Statutes, with the election held on the date for election of county officers as provided by G.S. 163‑1 and the results determined by a plurality basis in accordance with G.S. 163‑292. Candidates shall file with the Rowan County Board of Elections, no earlier than 12:00 noon on the first Friday in July and no later than 12:00 noon on the third Friday in July before the general election, a notice of candidacy in accordance with Article 24 of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to elections held on or after that date.