NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 236

HOUSE BILL 673

 

AN ACT TO EXPAND THE HYDE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FROM THREE TO FIVE MEMBERS.  

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 1 of Chapter 1141, Session Laws of 1949, is rewritten to read:

"Sec. 1. Hyde County is divided into five districts as follows:

(1)       District one: Currituck Township;

(2)       District two: Fairfield Township and Mattamuskeet Township;

(3)       District three: Ocracoke Township;

(4)       District four: Swan Quarter Township;

(5)       District five: Lake Landing Township."

Sec. 2. Section 2 of Chapter 1151, Session Laws of 1949, as amended by Chapter 281, Session Laws of 1977, is repealed.

Sec. 3. Section 3 of Chapter 1151, Session Laws of 1949, as amended by Chapter 281, Session Laws of 1977, is rewritten to read:

"Sec. 3. In the 1982 county election and quadrennially thereafter, one commissioner each shall be elected from districts one and four, for a four-year term. In the 1982 election, one commissioner each shall be elected for a two-year term from districts two and five, and in the 1984 election and quadrennially thereafter, one commissioner each shall be elected from districts two and five for a four-year term. In the 1984 election and quadrennially thereafter, one commissioner shall be elected from district three for a four-year term."

Sec. 4. Section 4 of Chapter 1151, Session Laws of 1949, is rewritten to read:

"Sec. 4. Members shall reside in and represent the districts established by this act, but the qualified voters of the entire county shall nominate all candidates for and elect all members of the board."

Sec. 5. The commissioner elected in 1980 for old district two shall serve until the first Monday in December of 1984. The commissioners elected in 1978 for old districts one and three shall serve until the first Monday in December of 1982.

Sec. 6. The Board of Commissioners of Hyde County consists of five members.

Sec. 7.  Sections 1 and 4 of this act shall become effective beginning with the 1982 election.  Sections 2, 3, and 5 of this act are effective upon ratification.  Section 6 of this act shall become effective on the first Monday in December of 1982.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of April, 1981.