GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1993 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 258

SENATE BILL 748

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAND RECORDS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM TO PROVIDE THAT THE SECRETARY OF STATE APPOINT THE MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND TO INCLUDE A MEMBER OF THE NORTH CAROLINA PROPERTY MAPPERS' ASSOCIATION ON THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 147-54.3(f) reads as rewritten:

"(f)      An advisory committee on land records is created to assist the Secretary in administering the land records management program.  The Governor Secretary of State shall appoint 12 members to the committee; one member shall be appointed from each of the organizations listed below from persons nominated by the organization:

(1)       The North Carolina Association of Assessing Officers;

(2)       The North Carolina Section of the American Society of Photogrammetry;

(3)       The North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Planners;

(4)       The North Carolina Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers;

(5)       The North Carolina Property Mappers' Association; Tax Collectors' Association;

(6)       The North Carolina Association of Registers of Deeds;

(7)       The North Carolina Bar Association;

(8)       The North Carolina Society of Land Surveyors; and

(9)       The North Carolina Association of County Commissioners.

In addition, three members from the public at large shall be appointed.  The members of the committee shall be appointed for four-year terms, except that the initial terms for members listed in positions (1) through (4) above and for two of the members-at-large shall be two years; thereafter all appointments shall be for four years.  The Governor Secretary of State shall appoint the chairman, and the committee shall meet at the call of the chairman.  The Governor Secretary of State in making the appointments shall try to achieve geographical and population balance on the advisory committee; one third of the appointments shall be persons from the most populous counties in the State containing approximately one third of the State's population, one third from the least populous counties containing approximately one third of the State's population, and one third shall be from the remaining moderately populous counties containing approximately one third of the State's population.  Each organization shall nominate one nominee each from the more populous, moderately populous, and less populous counties of the State.  The members of the committee shall receive per diem and subsistence and travel allowances as provided in G.S. 138-5."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification, and shall apply to appointments made on or after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 1st day of July, 1993.

 

 

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Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

 

 

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Daniel Blue, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives