Bill Text: NC H17 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Wayne Board of Education Vacancies
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-04-21 - Ch. SL 2011-49 [H17 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2011-H17-Chaptered.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
SESSION LAW 2011-49
HOUSE BILL 17
AN ACT to allow the wayne county board of education to fill its own vacancies.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Section 5 of A PLAN TO PROVIDE FOR THE MERGER AND CONSOLIDATION OF THE GOLDSBORO CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THE WAYNE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION AND TO ESTABLISH ONE ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR ALL THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF WAYNE COUNTY, approved by the Board of Commissioners of Wayne County on September 17, 1991, under G.S. 115C‑68.1 and as ratified by Chapter 767 of the 1991 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"SECTION V
Vacancies occurring on the
interim Wayne County Board of Education, for any reason, shall be filled by the
Wayne County Board of Commissioners. Vacancies occurring on the permanent
board of education shall be filled by the Wayne County Board of
Commissioners Education. In the event that a seat becomes vacant
that is filled by an individual who was elected from a district, the Wayne
County Commissioners Board of Education shall fill that vacancy
with an individual who resides in the district. Prior to filling any vacancy
under this section, the Board of Education may seek recommendations from the
Board of Commissioners. If so requested, the Board of Commissioners shall make recommendations
within 30 days. The person appointed to fill a vacancy on the permanent
board shall serve until the next general election at which the individual could
file for the primary. If the vacancy is filled after the filing period for the
next general election has passed, the member shall serve until a person can be
elected at the next following general election. The person so elected in either
case shall take office on the first Monday in December after the general
election in which he was elected. If the filing period or the next general
election has passed, the member shall serve until the second following general
election when the vacancy shall be filled by election if applicable."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st day of April, 2011.
s/ Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
s/ Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives