NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 102

HOUSE BILL 228

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 159B OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO AUTHORIZE MUNICIPALITIES WHICH ARE MEMBERS OF A JOINT MUNICIPAL POWER AGENCY TO APPOINT AN ALTERNATE COMMISSIONER TO THE POWER AGENCY TO ACT IN LIEU OF THEIR REGULARLY APPOINTED COMMISSIONER.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 159B-9(c) is amended by adding at the end the following:

"The governing boards of the municipalities may appoint one alternate commissioner to act in lieu of its appointed commissioner when the appointed commissioner is unable for any reason to attend meetings of the board of commissioners or any committee thereof. Each alternate commissioner shall serve at the pleasure of the governing board by which he is appointed and shall take, subscribe to and file an oath in the same manner as prescribed for regularly appointed commissioners. Such alternate commissioner when acting in lieu of the regularly appointed commissioner shall be deemed to be the commissioner of such municipality, and shall have the rights, powers and authority of the regularly appointed Commissioner, including any committee function of said commissioner, other than such commissioner's position as an officer pursuant to paragraph (d) of this G.S. 159B-9."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd of March, 1979.