GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2003
SESSION LAW 2003-325
HOUSE BILL 733
AN ACT to allow retired members of the durham firemen's supplemental retirement system to serve on the board of trustees of the system and to make the name of the system gender-neutral.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Subsection 2(a) of Chapter 576 of the 1951 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"(a) Two members of said
board of trustees shall be chosen as follows: two members from the uniformed
membership of the Durham Fire Department and Department, or one
member from the uniformed membership of the Durham Fire Department and the
other member from the roster of retired uniformed membership of the Durham Fire
Department. These two members shall be elected by a majority vote of the
uniformed members of the Fire Department of the City of Durham; one of said
members shall hold office for a period of one year, and the other member so
appointed shall hold office for a period of two years; thereafter, each of said
members chosen from the Durham Fire Department shall be appointed for a term of
office consisting of a period of two years each. Durham. The members
shall hold office for a period of two years."
SECTION 2. Subsection 2(q) of Chapter 576 of the 1951 Session Laws is repealed.
SECTION 3. Chapter 576 of the 1951 Session Laws, as amended by Chapter 101 of the 1955 Session Laws, Chapter 1237 of the 1955 Session Laws, Chapter 427 of the 1965 Session Laws, Chapter 66 of the 1971 Session Laws, Chapter 614 of the 1971 Session Laws, Chapter 701 of the 1973 Session Laws, Chapter 463 of the 1983 Session Laws, and S.L. 2002-114, and Chapter 577 of the 1951 Session Laws, as amended by S.L. 2002-114, is amended by deleting the term "Durham Firemen's Supplemental Retirement System" each time it appears and substituting "Durham Firefighters' Supplemental Retirement System".
SECTION 4. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 17th day of July, 2003.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives