Bill Text: NC H498 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Wake School Board Presiding Officer Voting
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-15 - Ch. SL 2011-138 [H498 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2011-H498-Chaptered.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
SESSION LAW 2011-138
HOUSE BILL 498
AN ACT to allow the presiding officer of the wake county board of education to vote in all cases.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Section 9 of Chapter 717 of the 1975 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 9. The Wake
County Board of Education, acting jointly and by a majority vote of all members
present, shall elect a chairman chair to preside at meetings and
a vice‑chairman vice‑chair to preside at meetings in
the absence of the chairman; and the chairman and vice‑chairman chair;
and the chair and vice‑chair shall have a vote on all matters
considered by the Wake County Board of Education, but the presiding officer
shall have no authority to vote except to break a tie. Education. All
vacancies occurring in the membership of the Wake County Board of Education by
reason of death, resignation, removal of residence from the district from which
elected, or for any cause whatsoever, shall be filled by the remaining members
of said board by appointing a member from the voting district creating the
vacancy for the unexpired term. The Wake County Board of Education shall have
all power and authority as a Board of Education as herein conferred and as are
conferred by the General Statutes of North Carolina on boards of education in
general."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2011.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of June, 2011.
s/ Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
s/ Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives
