GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1485

Short Title:  Wilmington Transit Authority.	(Local)
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Sponsors: Senator Block.
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Referred to:  Local Government and Regional Affairs.
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June 4, 1990

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR APPOINTMENT OF ALTERNATE MEMBERS OF THE WILMINGTON TRANSIT AUTHORITY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Section 1 of Chapter 224, Session Laws of 1973, reads as rewritten:
"Section 1. Wilmington Transit Authority; Creation; Membership. The City of Wilmington may, by ordinance, create a transit authority (hereinafter sometimes referred to as the ‘Authority'). The official name of the Authority shall be ‘Wilmington Transit Authority'. It shall be a body corporate and politic. It shall consist of three, five or seven members as determined by the Council of the City of Wilmington.
   Members of the Authority shall reside within the territorial jurisdiction of the Authority as hereinafter set out. They shall be appointed by the Mayor and Council of the City of Wilmington. All appointments shall be for a term of three years, except that as to those members first appointed as nearly as possible, one-third shall be appointed for a one-year term, one-third shall be appointed for a two-year term, and one-third shall be appointed for a three-year term. The date from which regular three-year terms shall run shall be established by ordinance. Appointments to fill vacancies occurring during the regular terms shall be made by the Mayor and Council. The appointments of all members shall run until their successors are appointed and qualified.
   The members of the Authority shall elect a chairman and vice-chairman from the membership of the Authority. They shall also elect a secretary who may, or may not, be a member of the Authority.
   A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and an affirmative vote of the majority of the members present at a meeting of the Authority shall be required to constitute action of the Authority. Members of the Authority shall receive such compensation, if any, as may be fixed by the Council of the City of Wilmington.  The City Council may, in its discretion, appoint alternate members to serve on the Authority in the absence of any regular member.  Alternate members shall be appointed for the same term, at the same time, and in the same manner as regular members.  Each alternate member, while attending any regular or special meeting of the Authority and serving in the absence of any regular member, shall have and may exercise all the powers and duties of a regular member."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.