GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 928

HOUSE BILL 2344

 

AN ACT REGARDING THE STANLY COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 2.1 of Chapter 141, Session Laws of 1961, as added by Section 3 of Chapter 355, Session Laws of 1975 and Chapter 185, Session Laws of 1987, is amended by:

(1)       Deleting "The President" and substituting "A designee";

(2)       Deleting "Albemarle-";

(3)       Deleting "ex officio", and substituting "voting ex officio";

(4)       Deleting "10 members", and substituting "12 members"; and

(5)       Adding a new sentence at the end to read: "The Stanly County Manager and the Stanly County Attorney shall also, by virtue of their respective office, serve in a nonvoting ex officio capacity on the Economic Development Commission."

Sec. 2.  Section 3 of Chapter 141, Session Laws of 1961, is amended by:

(1)       Deleting "first two years'" in the first sentence, and substituting "initial years";

(2)       Deleting "five members" in the first sentence, and substituting "one-half";

(3)       Adding the following sentence at the end: "For clarification, a Democrat and a Republican from the following areas (voting precincts) of Stanly County are to be appointed by the Board of Commissioners: North (Almond, Ridenhour, Richfield, New London, and North Albemarle); South (East Center, West Center, Tyson, and Big Lick #1); East (South Albemarle, East Albemarle, Badin, and Palmerville); West (Furr #1, Furr #2, Big Lick #2, and Endy); Central (Albemarle #1, Albemarle #2, Albermarle #6, Albemarle #7, Albemarle #8, Albemarle #10, and Albemarle #11); and two seats at large."

Sec. 3.  Section 4 of Chapter 141, Session Laws of 1961, as amended by Chapter 185, Session Laws of 1987, is rewritten to read:

"Sec. 4.  The chairman of the Economic Development Commission shall serve a term corresponding with said person's term of office as a county commissioner."

Sec. 4.  Section 5 of Chapter 141, Session Laws of 1961, as amended by Chapter 355, Session Laws of 1975 and Chapter 185, Session Laws of 1987, is amended by deleting the second sentence and substituting the following: "Whenever necessary, members of the Economic Development Commission shall by a majority vote make necessary changes to their bylaws, procedural rules and policies subject to the approval of the county board of commissioners.  All disbursements shall be made to the commission by the county in the same way and manner provided by law for disbursing public funds of Stanly County, and no disbursements shall be made except upon approval of the county board of commissioners."

Sec. 5.  Section 5.2 of Chapter 141, Session Laws of 1961, as added by Chapter 355, Session Laws of 1975 and amended by Chapter 185, Session Laws of 1987, is amended by:

(1)       Deleting "Albemarle-" in the first sentence;

(2)       Deleting "of industrial development", and substituting "of economic development"; and

(3)       Inserting "or the County of Stanly" immediately before the period at the end of the second sentence.

Sec. 6.  Section 6.1 of Chapter 141, Session Laws of 1961, as added by Chapter 706, Session Laws of 1965, is amended by:

(1)       Deleting "Industrial Commission", and substituting "Economic Commission"; and

(2)       Deleting ", as provided in G.S. 158-18, and 158-19 1964 Replacement Volume 3D".

Sec. 7.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of June, 1988.