GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 140
HOUSE BILL 225

AN ACT TO MODIFY THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR APPOINTMENT AND THE TERMS OF THE TRUSTEES FOR ALBEMARLE HOSPITAL IN PASQUOTANK COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 1 of Chapter 203 of the 1959 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Section 1.  G.S. 131-28.8 [now G.S. 131E-18] is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:
'In Pasquotank County the Board of Commissioners of said county shall appoint a Board of Trustees for Albemarle Hospital, consisting of ten members, five of whom shall be appointed from Elizabeth City Township; five members of said board shall be appointed for a term of one year each, and five members of said board shall be appointed for a term of two years each.   At the end of their respective terms their successors shall be appointed for terms of two years each.  Any vacancy on the board of trustees shall be filled by the board of commissioners for the unexpired term.  The appointments of the members of the Board of Trustees of Albemarle Hospital heretofore made by the Board of Commissioners of Pasquotank and all acts and things done by said trustees by virtue of their appointments are hereby validated.'"
Sec. 2.  Nothing in this act shall be construed to require the Board of Commissioners of Pasquotank County to appoint or reappoint any particular individual to a term as Trustee of Albemarle Hospital.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 25th day of May, 1989.