GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
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SENATE BILL 479

 
 
Short Title:	Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Runoff.	()	
Sponsors:	Senators Rucho; and Odom.	
Referred to:	State and Local Government.	
March 15, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO MAKE CHANGES IN THE MANNER OF ELECTION OF THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG BOARD OF EDUCATION SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR NONPARTISAN election with a runoff if no candidate gets forty percent of the vote.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  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 election and runoff election basis on:
(1)	The date provided by G.S. 163-279(a)(2) if any municipality in the county conducts its elections on a partisan basis, or
(2)	The date provided by G.S. 163-279(a)(4) if no municipality in the county conducts its elections on a partisan basis.
(b)	The results shall be determined as provided by G.S. 163-293, except that a forty percent (40%) substantial plurality is required rather than a majority. The rules provided in G.S. 163-111 for determining substantial plurality shall apply.
(c)	Notwithstanding G.S. 163-279(a), if any municipality in the county conducts its election on a partisan basis:
(1)	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;
(2)	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.
(d)	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 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.