GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2013
SESSION LAW 2013-99
HOUSE BILL 368
AN ACT to provide representation of Forestry and Nursery interests on the Board of Agriculture.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 106-2 reads as rewritten:
"§ 106-2. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services established; Board of Agriculture, membership, terms of office, etc.
(a)
Department and Board Established. - The Department of Agriculture and
Consumer Services is created and established and shall be under the control of
the Commissioner of Agriculture, with the consent and advice of a board to be styled
established and named "The Board of Agriculture."
(b)
Membership; Qualifications. - The Board of Agriculture shall consist of
the Commissioner of Agriculture, who shall be an ex officio a member
and chairman thereof and shall preside at all meetings, and of 10 other members
from the State at large, State, so distributed as to reasonably
represent the different sections and agriculture of the State. The
Commissioner of Agriculture and the members of the Board of Agriculture shall
be practicing farmers engaged in their profession. The members of the Board
shall be appointed by the Governor by and with the consent of the Senate. In
the appointment of the members of the Board the Governor shall also take into
consideration the different agricultural interests of the State, and shall
appoint members with the following qualifications:
(1)
one One member who shall be a practical practicing tobacco
farmer to represent the tobacco farming interest,interest.
(2)
oneOne member who shall be a practical practicing cotton
grower to represent the cotton interest,interest.
(3)
oneOne member who shall be a practical practicing truckfruit
or vegetable farmer or general farmer to represent the truck and
general fruit and vegetable farming interest,interest.
(4)
one One member who shall be a practical practicing dairy
farmer to represent the dairy and livestock interest of the State,State.
(5)
oneOne member who shall be a practical practicing poultryman
to represent the poultry interest of the State,State.
(6)
oneOne member who shall be a practical practicing peanut
grower to represent the peanut interests,interests of the State.
(7)
oneOne member who shall be experienced in marketing to represent
the marketing of products of the State.
(8) One member who shall be actively involved in forestry to represent the forestry interests of the State.
(9) One member who shall be actively involved in the nursery business to represent the nursery industry of the State.
(10) One member who shall be a practicing general farmer to represent the general farming interest.
(c)
Terms. - The members of such Board shall be appointed by the Governor
by and with the consent of the Senate, when the terms of the incumbents
respectively expire. The term of office of such members of the
Board shall be six years and until their successors are duly appointed and
qualified. The terms of office of the five members constituting the present
Board of Agriculture shall continue for the time for which they were appointed.
In making appointments for the enlarged Board of Agriculture, the Governor
shall make the appointments so that the term of three members will be for two
years, three for four and four for six years. Thereafter the appointments shall
be made for six years.
(d)
Vacancies. - Vacancies in such the Board shall be filled
by the Governor for the unexpired term. The Commissioner of Agriculture and
the members of the Board of Agriculture shall be practical farmers engaged in
their profession."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2013, and applies to appointments to the Board of Agriculture made on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 5th day of June, 2013.
s/ Daniel J. Forest
President of the Senate
s/ Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Pat McCrory
Governor
Approved 4:29 p.m. this 12th day of June, 2013