NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 430

HOUSE BILL 50

 

 

AN ACT TO INCLUDE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COASTAL RESOURCES COMMISSION, THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK COUNCIL AND THE SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION COMMISSION ON THE BOARD OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND TO REDUCE THE SIZE OF THE BOARD.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 143B-280 as the same appears in the 1978 Replacement Volume 3C of the General Statutes is amended by rewriting the third paragraph thereof as follows:

"The Board of Natural Resources and Community Development shall consist of the following 21 members. The chairman of each of the following commissions: the Wildlife Resources Commission, the Environmental Management Commission, the Marine Fisheries Commission, the Coastal Resources Commission and the Soil and Water Conservation Commission; the chairman of each of the following councils: the Earth Resources Council, the Community Development Council, the Forestry Council, the Parks and Recreation Council and the North Carolina Zoological Park Council; 10 members at large appointed by the Governor to serve at his pleasure; and the Secretary of Natural Resources and Community Development who shall be a member and chairman ex officio."

Sec. 2.  Notwithstanding Section 1 of this act, the members of the Board elected by the various Commissions and Councils under Chapter 1262 of the 1973 Session laws shall serve out their present terms on the Board. The first three vacancies occurring as a result of the expiration of the terms of such elected members shall be filled by the addition of the Chairman of the Coastal Resources Commission, the Soil and Water Conservation Commission, and the North Carolina Zoological Park Council in the order determined by the Governor. The membership of the Board is reduced from 25 to 21 as the remaining four vacancies occur as a result of the expiration of terms of the remaining members elected by the various Commissions and Councils.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of April, 1979.