GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION

S.L. 1997-43
HOUSE BILL 100

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE HERTFORD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION IN NOVEMBER OF EVEN-NUMBERED YEARS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Beginning with the 1998 election, members of the Hertford County Board of Education shall be elected in November of even-numbered years at the same time as the general election for State and county officers.  Elections shall continue to be conducted by the nonpartisan plurality method.
Section 2.  Unless the General Assembly by general State law provides a different period for the filing of notices of candidacy for nonpartisan plurality elections held in November of even-numbered years, the filing period for the Hertford County Board of Education shall commence at noon on the first Friday in July and close at noon on the first Friday in August preceding the election.
Section 3.  Except as otherwise provided in this act, elections for the Hertford County Board of Education shall be conducted according to general State law for county school boards.
Section 4.  This act shall not be implemented until it has been precleared pursuant to section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Section 5.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 12th day of May, 1997.

s/	Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives