GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2011

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HOUSE BILL 450

Committee Substitute Favorable 6/1/11

Senate Rules and Operations of the Senate Committee Substitute Adopted 6/15/11

Short Title:        Guilford County Comm. Districts.	(Local)
Sponsors:
Referred to:

March 24, 2011

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to restructure the guilford county board of commissioners.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Chapter 136, Session Laws of 1991, as reenacted by Section 1 of Chapter 521, Session Laws of 1993, is repealed.

SECTION 2.(a)  Effective on the first Monday of December 2012, the Board of Commissioners of Guilford County shall consist of nine members.  The members shall be elected on a partisan basis at the time of the regular county primary and general elections.  One member shall be elected from each of eight single-member districts established under subsection (d) of this section.  One member shall be elected at large from within the entirety of Guilford County.

SECTION 2.(b)  In 2012 and quadrennially thereafter, members for Districts 1, 6, 7, and 8 shall be elected for four-year terms. In 2014 and quadrennially thereafter, members for Districts 2, 3, 4, and 5, and one at-large member shall be elected for four-year terms.

SECTION 2.(c)  The qualified voters of each district shall elect the member of the board for that district.  Candidates must reside in the district for which they seek to be elected.

SECTION 2.(d)  The districts are as follows:

District 1: Guilford County: VTD: G53, VTD: G55, VTD: G57, VTD: G59, VTD: G60, VTD: H03, VTD: H05, VTD: H06, VTD: H07, VTD: H08, VTD: H09, VTD: H10, VTD: H11, VTD: H12, VTD: H18, VTD: H19A, VTD: JAM4, VTD: SUM1, VTD: SUM2.

District 2: Guilford County: VTD: H01, VTD: H02, VTD: H13, VTD: H14, VTD: H15, VTD: H16, VTD: H17, VTD: H19B, VTD: H20A, VTD: H20B, VTD: H21, VTD: H22, VTD: H23, VTD: H24, VTD: H25, VTD: H26, VTD: H27, VTD: HP, VTD: JAM1, VTD: JAM2.

District 3: Guilford County: VTD: FR1, VTD: FR2, VTD: FR3, VTD: FR4, VTD: FR5, VTD: G39, VTD: G40A1, VTD: G40A2, VTD: G40B, VTD: G41, VTD: G42, VTD: G43, VTD: G63, VTD: G64, VTD: G65, VTD: G66, VTD: JAM3, VTD: NDRI, VTD: SDRI.

District 4: Guilford County: VTD: FEN1, VTD: G46, VTD: G47, VTD: G48, VTD: G49, VTD: G50, VTD: G51, VTD: G52, VTD: G54, VTD: G56, VTD: G58, VTD: G61, VTD: G62, VTD: G69, VTD: G73, VTD: G75, VTD: JEF3.

District 5: Guilford County: VTD: G01, VTD: G02, VTD: G03, VTD: G04, VTD: G05, VTD: G06, VTD: G07, VTD: G08, VTD: G09, VTD: G10, VTD: G26, VTD: G67, VTD: G68, VTD: G70, VTD: G71, VTD: G72, VTD: G74, VTD: MON2.

District 6: Guilford County: VTD: FEN2, VTD: GIB, VTD: GR, VTD: H04, VTD: JAM5, VTD: JEF1, VTD: JEF2, VTD: JEF4, VTD: MON1, VTD: NCLAY1, VTD: NCLAY2, VTD: PG1, VTD: PG2, VTD: RC1, VTD: RC2, VTD: SCLAY, VTD: SMAD, VTD: SUM3, VTD: SUM4, VTD: SWASH.

District 7: Guilford County: VTD: CG1, VTD: CG2, VTD: CG3A, VTD: CG3B, VTD: G25, VTD: G27, VTD: G28, VTD: MON3, VTD: NCGR1, VTD: NCGR2, VTD: NMAD, VTD: NWASH, VTD: OR1, VTD: OR2, VTD: SF1, VTD: SF2, VTD: SF3, VTD: SF4, VTD: STOK.

District 8: Guilford County: VTD: G11, VTD: G12, VTD: G13, VTD: G14, VTD: G15, VTD: G16, VTD: G17, VTD: G18, VTD: G19, VTD: G20, VTD: G21, VTD: G22, VTD: G23, VTD: G24, VTD: G29, VTD: G30, VTD: G31, VTD: G32, VTD: G33, VTD: G34, VTD: G35, VTD: G36, VTD: G37, VTD: G38, VTD: G44, VTD: G45

SECTION 3.  Following the return of the 2020 Census, and each Census thereafter, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners may revise the election districts.

SECTION 4.  The Guilford County Commissioners shall submit the changes required by this act to the U.S. Department of Justice pursuant to section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

SECTION 5.  This act becomes effective January 1, 2012.