NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 387

SENATE BILL 481

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 139-7 TO CHANGE PERTINENT DATES IN THE APPOINTMENT OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS' SUPERVISORS.

Whereas, newly elected supervisors of soil and water conservation districts may not be as familiar with qualifications necessary for appointive supervisors as the previous district board, it is desirable that recommendations for appointive supervisors be made prior to the November elections; and

Whereas, appointive supervisors should take office at the same time as elective supervisors; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The first paragraph of G.S. 139-7, as the same appears in the 1975 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 139-7.  District board of supervisors; appointive members; organization of board; certain powers and duties. — The governing body of a soil and water conservation district shall consist of three elective supervisors from the county or counties in the district, together with the appointive members appointed by the Soil and Water Conservation Commission pursuant to this section, and shall be known as the district board of supervisors. When a district is composed of less than four counties, the elective supervisors of each county shall on or before October 31, 1978, and on or before October 31 as the terms of the appointive supervisors expire, recommend in writing two persons to the commission to be appointed to serve with the elective supervisors. If the names are not submitted to the commission as required, the commission shall appoint two persons of the district to the district board of supervisors to serve with the elected supervisors. The commission shall make its appointments prior to or at the November meeting of the commission. Appointive supervisors shall take office on the first Monday in December following their appointment. Such appointive supervisors shall serve for a term of four years, and thereafter, as their terms expire, their successors shall serve for a term of four years. The terms of office of all appointive supervisors who have heretofore been lawfully appointed for terms the final year of which presently extends beyond the first Monday in December are hereby terminated on the first Monday in December of the final year of appointment. Vacancies for any reason in the appointive supervisors shall be filled for the unexpired term by the appointment of a person by the commission from the district in which the vacancy occurs. Vacancies for any reason in the elected supervisors shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment by the commission of a person from the county in the district in which the vacancy occurs."

Sec. 2.  The effective date of this act is July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of May, 1977.