NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 362

HOUSE BILL 793

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTERS 157 AND 160 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO AUTHORIZE AN INCREASE IN THE MEMBERSHIP OF HOUSING AUTHORITIES AND REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 1574 is hereby amended by striking out of the tenth line of the third paragraph thereof the word "five" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "not less than five nor more than nine".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 157-5 is hereby amended by striking out of the second line of the first paragraph thereof the word "five" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "not less than five nor more than nine".

Sec. 3.  G.S. 157-5 is hereby further amended by adding at the end of the first paragraph thereof a new sentence to read as follows: "The council may at any time by resolution or ordinance increase or decrease the membership of an authority, within the limitations herein prescribed."

Sec. 4.  G.S. 157-5 is hereby further amended by rewriting the first sentence of the second paragraph thereof to read as follows: "The mayor shall designate overlapping terms of not less than one nor more than five years for the commissioners first appointed."

Sec. 5.  G.S. 157-5 is hereby further amended by striking out of the fifth sentence of the second paragraph thereof the word "Three" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "A majority of the".

Sec. 6.  G.S. 160-458 is hereby amended by striking out thereof the word "five" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "not less than five nor more than nine".

Sec. 7.  G.S. 160-458 is hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof a new sentence to read as follows: "The governing body may at any time by resolution or ordinance increase or decrease the membership of a commission, within the limitations herein prescribed."

Sec. 8.  G.S. 160-459, as the same appears in the 1969 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3D of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by rewriting the first sentence thereof to read as follows: "The mayor and governing body shall designate overlapping terms of not less than one nor more than five years for the members who are first appointed."

Sec. 9.  G.S. 160-460 is hereby amended by striking out of the third sentence thereof the word "Three" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "A majority of the".

Sec. 10.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 11.  This act shall be effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of May, 1971.