NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1271

SENATE BILL 859

 

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW A SPECIAL ELECTION TO BE HELD IN NOVEMBER 1982 IN CERTAIN SANITARY DISTRICTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Chapter 130 of the General Statutes is amended by adding sections to read:

"§ 130-126.2. Special election if election not held in November of 1981. - (a) If in any sanitary district, an election of board members was required to be held in November of 1981 under G.S. 130-126 but was not held, the county board of commissioners of the county in which the district is located may by resolution order a special election of all the board members to be held at the same time as the General Election in November of 1982.

(b)        The election shall be held under the procedures of Articles 23 and 24 of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes and in accordance with G.S. 130-126, except that filing shall open at noon on Monday, August 9, 1982, and close at noon on Monday, August 23, 1982.

(c)        In the election held under this section, all of the members of the board shall be elected. If the board of commissioners has provided for two- or four-year terms, the members elected in 1982 shall serve until the 1983 or 1985 election, respectively, and then their successors shall be elected for the two- or four-year terms provided by the county board of commissioners.

(d)        Any resolution adopted under subsection (a) of this section shall be filed with the Commission for Health Services.

"§ 130-126.3. Actions validated. - Any action of a sanitary district taken prior to June 1, 1982, shall not be invalidated by failure to hold an election for members of the board."

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of June, 1982.