GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 22

HOUSE BILL 45

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW EVEN-YEAR ELECTIONS FOR SOME MULTI-COUNTY SANITARY DISTRICTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 130A-50 is amended by inserting after subsection (b) a new subsection (b1) to read:

"(b1)    If a sanitary district:

1.         does not share territory with any city as defined by G.S. 160A-1(2), and

2.         the sanitary district is in more than one county,

the boards of county commissioners in all counties with territory in the sanitary district may set the sanitary district elections to be held on the same date as general elections in even-numbered years under G.S. 163-1 and may extend the terms of any sanitary district board members who are in office at the ratification of this act until the next even-year general election can been held and successors qualified."

Sec. 2. G.S.  163-279(c) is amended by adding at the end of the second sentence, after the term "section" but before the period, the following:

"or in G.S. 130A-50(b1)".

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 20th day of March, 1987.