NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 820

HOUSE BILL 1202

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE ADVISORY BUDGET COMMISSION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 143-4 is amended by rewriting the first paragraph of the section to read as follows:

"The Chairman of the Appropriations and the Finance Committees of the House and of the Senate, two other Senators appointed by the President of the Senate, two other Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House, and four other persons appointed by the Governor shall constitute the Advisory Budget Commission."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 143-4 is further amended by rewriting the third paragraph of the section to read as follows:

"A vacancy in a seat on the Commission filled by the Chairman of a Finance or an Appropriations Committee shall be filled by appointment by the officer who appointed the chairman causing the vacancy. A vacancy in one of the other seats on the Commission shall be filled by appointment by the officer who appointed the person causing the vacancy."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 143-4 is further amended by rewriting the last paragraph of the section to read as follows:

"In all matters where action on the part of the Advisory Budget Commission is required by this Article, eight members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum for performing the duties or acts required by the Commission."

Sec. 4.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1973.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of May, 1973.