GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2003

 

 

SESSION LAW 2004-45

HOUSE BILL 1722

 

 

AN ACT to increase the membership of the currituck Alcoholic Beverage Control Board from three to five members.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  G.S.18B-700(a) reads as rewritten:

"(a)      Membership. - A local ABC board shall consist of three five members appointed for three-year terms, unless a different membership or term is provided by a local act enacted before the effective date of this Chapter, or unless the board is a board for a merged ABC system under G.S. 18B-703 and a different size membership has been provided for as part of the negotiated merger. One member of the initial board of a newly created ABC system shall be appointed for a three-year term, one member for a two-year term, and one member for a one-year term. terms. As the terms of initial board members expire, their successors shall each be appointed for three-year terms. The appointing authority shall designate one member of the local board as chairman. The three members appointed prior to the effective date of this act shall complete their terms as appointed. The two new members appointed after the effective date of this act shall be appointed as provided in Section 2 of this act."

SECTION 2.  The Board of Commissioners shall appoint additional members authorized by this act to serve one-year and two-year initial terms and then for three-year terms thereafter.  The initial terms shall be decided upon to maintain the staggered appoint periods required by G.S. 18B-700(a) as amended by Section 1 of this act.

SECTION 3.  This act applies to Currituck County only.

SECTION 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30th day of June, 2004.

 

 

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/ Richard T. Morgan

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives