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~115C-.506 (il ~is,' .Er ,.~Fl( N ~113C-.506 consideration. It'. in the discretion of the N~ard or education, the pet~t{un for an election shall be approved, it shall be endorsed by the chairman and the secretary of the board and a record of the endorsement shall be made i~ the minutes of the board. Petitions ~br an election to enlarge acit:,' administrative unit .,hall be subject to the approval and end.rsement of both c,)untv and city' boards of education which are therein affected. Local boards of ectucati,~n shall hav~ n,~ discretion in granting an election to abolish a ~pecia~ school tax in any local sch,~ol adminis- trative unit. nr district. (~r other school a,'ea, which has previously voted a supplemental tax. whenever a maj,rity of thc, qualified voters residing in said local school administrative unit. district or school, area shall petition for an election. When such a petition, showing the proper number of names of qualified voters, is pre- sented to a board of education, it is hereby made mandatory that such petition shah be ~'anted and the election held. If at the election a majority of those in the district who have voted thereon have voted "against local tax." the tax shall be deemecl revoked and shall not be levied: Provided. that in Alexander. Anson. Beauth,,.t. Buncombe. Carter~?t. Catawba. Chatham. Chowan. Ctev~qand. Craven. Currltuck. Davicison. Dupiin. Franklin. Gates. Ot'uene. Henderson. Hoke. Hyde. h'edell. .Sacks,re. .Iulmston. L~.noin Martin. Mecklenburg. Moore. Nash. OhS[my. PamlioJ. Pitt. Randolph. Rich- mond. Robeson. Rockingham. Transylvania. Vance. Wake. Warren and Wilkes Counties. pet[lion of twenty-tire percent ,25';~ of the number of voters in the election creating said special tax district. said petition to be signed by qualified voters residing in such special tax district, shall be sufficient. The provisions of this section as t,~ abolishing Ideal tax oils[mots shah not be applied when such local tax district is m debt in any sttm whatever, or has obligated o,' ommutted its resources in any contractual manner: Provided. that n,~ electinn for rtzvoking a local tax in any local tax dist,'icr shall L'e orde:'ed and held in th*> district within less than ,>ne 5ear from the date of the u[ecti,m ut which the tax was vd[od and the district establi.~hed, not' at any nme within less than one year after the date of the last election t,r;. the question of revoking thee tax in the district: and no petition seeking to revoke a school tax shall be approved by a board of education more often than once a year. t 19.55. c. 135'2. art. 14. s. 5: 19.57. c. 1100: 1981. c. 42:3. s. 1:19~35 IReg. Sess.. 1986~. c. 97.5. s. 24.~ CASE NOTES Time for Holding Subsequent Election Revoking Local Tax. -- Ti~e ~hould be computed fram the last valid [',a,.'id>,m k',luntv tS2 N(' m)4. 109 S.[. 863 , 1.921, dt'cld-d tllld~'t t't)l'lllt-t' entre- § 115C-506. Action of board of county commission- ers or governing body of municipality. Petitions requesting' special school elections and bearing the a~rova[ ut the board ofeducatton ut the local school admmtstrat~ve unit shall be Dre~nted to the board ut cotmtv colnnll~;Sli'lllei'N nnr ,t shat[ be the duty of said board of c,untv commissioners to cai1 an ~lection and fix ihe date tbr the sump: Provided. that the board of 406 72