NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 189

SENATE BILL 495

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE HAYWOOD COUNTY HOSPITAL.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Board of Trustees; appointment. From and after the first regular meeting of the Haywood County Board of Commissioners following the date of ratification of this enactment, the Board of Trustees of the Haywood County Hospital shall be eight persons, appointed by the Haywood County Board of Commissioners, being at least one of each sex, and one of whom may be actively engaged in the licensed practice of medicine in Haywood County; the trustees must be of different occupations or professions and not otherwise employed by Haywood County Hospital; no more than two trustees shall reside in the same township; provided, that this restriction as to township shall not apply to a trustee who is actively engaged in the licensed practice of medicine in Haywood County.

At the first regular meeting of the Haywood County Board of Commissioners following the ratification of this enactment, one additional trustee shall be appointed for a term of office to expire of the last Saturday in December, 1978. The seven trustees presently serving on the Board of Trustees of the Haywood County Hospital shall serve the remainder of the terms to which they were originally appointed, or the remaining portion of the unexpired terms to which they were appointed following a vacancy. Successors to those trustees whose terms of office expire in the same year in which county commissioners are elected, shall be appointed only by the incoming board of county commissioners.

Sec. 2. Term of office. The term of office of the members of the Board of Trustees of the Haywood County Hospital who are subsequently appointed following the expiration of the terms presently being served, shall be appointed for a term of four years, provided, that the additional trustee to be hereinafter appointed as provided above, shall serve only until the last Saturday in December, 1978. Upon the expiration of the above terms, all successors shall be appointed for a term of four years.

Sec. 3. Vacancies. All vacancies on the board of trustees shall be filled by the Haywood County Board of Commissioners, and such appointments shall be for the unexpired term of the trustee creating the vacancy, and shall not prevent a trustee from reappointment to a successive term. A trustee may be reappointed for one additional four-year term following consecutively the expiration of the term to which he was originally appointed. Following a minimum of one year of nonservice, an individual may again be appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Haywood County Hospital.

Sec. 4. Meetings; compensation. The Board of Trustees of the Haywood County Hospital shall, at its first meeting in each year, elect a chairman, vice-chairman, and a secretary.

The Board of Trustees shall hold a regular meeting once each month at an announced time and place, and may hold as many additional meetings as it deems necessary.

The chairman of the board of trustees shall receive as compensation the sum of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per meeting, and the members of the board of trustees shall receive ten dollars ($10.00) per meeting. Provided, however, the chairman and members shall not be compensated for more than one meeting per month.

Sec. 5. Voting. Each person on the Board of Trustees, with the exception of the chairman, shall have one vote. The chairman shall vote only in the case of a tie vote.

Sec. 6. Chapter 255, Session Laws of 1965, and all other laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of May, 1975.