GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION
CHAPTER 367
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 7A-740 reads as rewritten:
"§ 7A-740. Creation; members; terms; qualifications; vacancies.
The Juvenile Law Study Commission is hereby created. It shall
consist of 18 voting members, 14 to be appointed by the Governor, two by the
President of the Senate, and two by the Speaker of the House of
Representatives. The members appointed by the President of the Senate shall be
members of the Senate at the time of their appointment; the members appointed
by the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be members of the House of
Representatives at the time of their appointment. Of the members appointed by
the Governor, two shall be district court judges, one from an urban district,
one from a rural. Three shall be a chief court counselor and two court
counselors representing the Intake Division, one from an urban district, one
from a rural. Two shall be from Social Services, one from the State level and
one from the county. One shall be from the Division of Youth Services. One
shall be from a local facility of Community Based Alternatives. Two One
shall be a youth member representing the youth of the State who shall be
persons a person under the age of 21 at the time of their
appointment. the appointment, who shall serve for one year. One shall be
a State or local representative of the Guardian Ad Litem Services of the
Administrative Office of the Courts, who shall serve for two years. One
shall be from Law Enforcement. One shall be from the North Carolina Juvenile
Detention Association. One shall be the member of the Juvenile Justice Planning
Committee of the Governor's Crime Commission recommended for appointment by the
Juvenile Justice Planning Committee and shall serve for three years. The
district court judges and the Social Services members shall serve for three
years. The chief court counselor and the court counselors shall serve for two
years. The representatives from the Division of Youth Services, Law Enforcement,
Community Based Alternatives, and the Juvenile Detention Association shall
serve for one year. The legislative members shall serve for two-year terms. All
initial terms shall begin July 1, 1980. A vacancy in membership shall be filled
by the appointing authority who made the initial appointment. When the members'
terms expire, their successors shall serve for the same length of time their
predecessors served. A member whose term expires may be reappointed. If, when a
term expires, the appointing authority has not filled the vacancy, the member
whose term has expired shall continue to serve until the appointment is
made."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 20th day of June, 1989.