NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 471
HOUSE BILL 609

AN ACT TO AMEND THE NORTH CAROLINA METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE DISTRICTS ACT RELATING TO THE APPOINTMENT OF DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS IN CERTAIN CASES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 153-298, as the same appears in the 1961 Cumulative Supplement to the General Statutes, a part of the Metropolitan Sewerage Districts Act codified as Article 25 of Chapter 153 of the General Statutes, is amended by redesignating the present Section as subsection (a) and adding a subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b)	Any Metropolitan Sewerage District wholly within the corporate limits of two or more municipalities shall be governed by a district board consisting of members appointed by the governing body of each political subdivision (municipal corporation) included wholly or partially in the district and an additional at-large member appointed by the other members of the district board as provided in this subsection. The governing body of each constituent municipality shall initially appoint two members from its qualified electors, one for a term expiring the first day of July after the first succeeding regular election in which municipal officers shall be elected by the municipality from which he is appointed, and the other for a term expiring the first day of July after the second succeeding regular election of municipal officers in the municipality. Thereafter, subsequent to each ensuing regular election of municipal officers the governing body of each municipal corporation composing any part of the Metropolitan Sewerage District shall appoint one member to the district board for a term of four (4) years beginning on the first day of July. The one additional at-large member of the district board shall be a qualified elector of a constituent municipality of the district and appointed initially and quadrennially thereafter by majority vote of the other district board membership for a term of four (4) years which shall expire on the first day of August in every fourth calendar year thereafter.
"Any vacancy in district board membership shall be filled by appointment of the original appointing authority for the remainder of the unexpired term.
"The provisions of subsection (a) in particular and of this Article generally not inconsistent with this subsection shall also apply."
Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of May, 1963.