GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION
CHAPTER 467
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 143B-407(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) The State Commission
of Indian Affairs shall consist of two persons appointed by the General
Assembly, the Secretary of Human Resources, the Director of the State
Employment Security Commission, the Secretary of Administration, the Secretary
of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, the Commissioner of Labor or
their designees and 15 18 representatives of the Indian
community. These 15 Indian members shall be selected by tribal or
community consent from the Indian groups that are recognized by the State of
North Carolina and are principally geographically located as follows: the
Coharie of Sampson and Harnett Counties; the Eastern Band of Cherokees; the
Haliwa of Halifax, Warren, and adjoining counties; the Lumbees of Robeson, Hoke
and Scotland Counties; the Meherrin of Hertford County; the
Waccamaw-Siouan from Columbus and Bladen Counties; and the Native Americans
located in Cumberland, Guilford and Mecklenburg Counties. The Coharie
shall have two members; the Eastern Band of Cherokees, two; the Haliwa,
two; the Lumbees, three; the Meherrin, one; the Waccamaw-Siouan, two;
the Cumberland County Association for Indian People, two; the Guilford Native
Americans, two; the Metrolian Native Americans, two. If the Eastern
Band of Cherokees should choose to participate, then they shall have two
members on the commission thereby bringing the total Indian membership to
17. Of the two appointments made by the General Assembly, one shall
be made upon the recommendation of the Speaker, and one shall be made upon
recommendation of the President of the Senate. Appointments by the
General Assembly shall be made in accordance with G.S. 120-121 and vacancies
shall be filled in accordance with G.S. 120-122."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 1st day of July, 1991.
───────────────────
James C. Gardner
President of the Senate
───────────────────
Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives