GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2003

SESSION LAW 2003-185

SENATE BILL 90

AN ACT to allow sanitary district boards to set compensation for its members.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 130A-56(c) reads as rewritten:

"(c)      The board may, by ordinance, may fix the compensation and allowances of its members in an amount not to exceed one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) per month, the chairman and other members of the board by adoption of the annual budget ordinance, payable from the funds of the district, but no increase may become effective earlier than the first meeting of the board following the next election of board members after adoption of the ordinance. Until adoption of an ordinance under this subsection, each member of the board may receive compensation as provided for members of State boards under G.S. 138-5, payable from funds of the district."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 4^th day of June, 2003.

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/ Richard T. Morgan

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

Approved 10:13 a.m. this 12^th day of June, 2003