GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2009
H 1
HOUSE BILL 953
Short Title: Expand Currituck Board of Adjustment. |
(Local) |
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Sponsors: |
Representative Owens. |
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Referred to: |
Local Government II. |
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April 1, 2009
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT increasing to seven the number of members of the currituck county board of adjustment.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 153A-345(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) The board of
commissioners may provide for the appointment and compensation, if any, of a
board of adjustment consisting of at least fiveseven regular
members, each to be appointed for three years. years from each
commissioner residency and at-large district. In appointing the original
members of the board, or in filling vacancies caused by the expiration of
the terms of existing members, the board of commissioners may appoint some
members for less than three years to the end that thereafter the terms of all
members do not expire at the same time. The board of commissioners may provide
for the appointment and compensation, if any, of alternate members to serve on
the board in the absence or temporary disqualification of any regular member or
to fill a vacancy pending appointment of a member. Alternate members shall be
appointed for the same term, at the same time, and in the same manner as
regular members. Each alternate member, while attending any regular or special
meeting of the board and serving on behalf of a regular member, has and may
exercise all the powers and duties of a regular member. If the board of
commissioners does not zone the entire territorial jurisdiction of the county,
each designated zoning area shall have at least one resident as a member of the
board of adjustment."
SECTION 2. This act applies to Currituck County only.
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.