GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
H	1
HOUSE BILL 500

 
 
Short Title:	Charlotte-Meck. School Omnibus Election.	()	
Sponsors:	Representative Gulley.	
Referred to:	Local Government I.	
March 7, 2001

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO MAKE CHANGES IN THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM FOR THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG BOARD OF EDUCATION TO CHANGE TERMS FROM FOUR YEARS TO TWO YEARS, TO ADD TWO AT-LARGE MEMBERS, AND TO PROVIDE FOR NONPARTISAN PRIMARY ELECTIONS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Section 2(a) of Chapter 167 of the 1993 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"(a) In 1995 and   1999, three members of the Charlotte‑Mecklenburg Board of Education shall be elected for four‑year terms by all the qualified voters of Mecklenburg County. In 2001 two members of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education shall be elected for two-year terms by all the qualified voters of Mecklenburg County. In 2003 and biennially thereafter, five members of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education shall be elected for two-year terms by all the qualified voters of Mecklenburg County."
SECTION 2. Section 2(c) of Chapter 167 of the 1993 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"(c) In 1995, one member of the Charlotte‑Mecklenburg Board of Education shall be elected from each district for a two‑year term by all the qualified voters of the district. In  1997 one member of the Charlotte‑Mecklenburg Board of Education shall be elected from each district for a four‑year term by all the qualified voters of the district. In 2001 and biennially thereafter, one member of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education shall be elected from each district for a two-year term by all the qualified voters of the district."
SECTION 3.  Section 1 of Chapter 167 of the 1993 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Section 1. (a)  The Charlotte‑Mecklenburg Board of Education shall be elected on a nonpartisan primary basis on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in odd‑numbered years, with the results determined as provided by G.S. 163-294. Notwithstanding G.S. 163-279(a), if any municipality in the county conducts its election on a partisan basis:
(1)	The nonpartisan primary for the board of education shall be held on the sixth Tuesday before the election;
(2)	Any municipality in the county which conducts its election on a nonpartisan primary basis shall have the nonpartisan primary on the sixth Tuesday before the election;
(3)	Any municipality in the county which conducts its election on a nonpartisan election and runoff election basis shall have the election on the sixth Tuesday before the Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
(b)	Except as otherwise provided by this act, the election shall be administered in accordance with Articles 23 and 24 of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes."
SECTION 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.