GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 68
SENATE BILL 560

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A NEW NORTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE RESOURCES COMMISSION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 143-240 reads as rewritten:
"§ 143-240. Creation of Wildlife Resources Commission; districts; qualifications of members.
(a)	There is hereby created the Wildlife Resources Commission of the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development which shall consist of 13 citizens of North Carolina who shall be appointed as is provided in G.S. 143-241.
Each member of the Commission shall be an experienced hunter, fisherman, farmer, or biologist, who shall be generally informed on wildlife conservation and restoration problems.
Members of the Commission shall receive per diem and necessary travel and subsistence expenses in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 138-5 or G.S. 138-6 as the case may be, which shall be paid from fees collected by the Wildlife Resources Commission.
(b)	There are established the following geographical wildlife districts:
First district to be composed of the following counties: Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Washington.
Second district to be composed of the following counties: Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, New Hanover, Onslow, Pamlico, Pender, Pitt.
Third district to be composed of the following counties: Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Johnston, Nash, Northampton, Vance, Wake, Warren, Wayne, Wilson.
Fourth district to be composed of the following counties: Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland.
Fifth district to be composed of the following counties: Alamance,  Caswell, Chatham, Durham, Granville, Guilford, Lee, Orange, Person, Randolph, Rockingham.
Sixth district to be composed of the following counties: Anson, Cabarrus, Davidson, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Rowan, Stanly, Union.
Seventh district to be composed of the following counties: Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Davie, Forsyth, Iredell, Stokes, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin.
Eighth district to be composed of the following counties: Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, McDowell, Mitchell, Rutherford, Yancey.
Ninth district to be composed of the following counties: Buncombe,  Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, Polk, Swain, Transylvania.
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Sec. 2.  The terms of office of the present members of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission shall expire upon ratification of this act.  Effective for terms to begin on that date, the members of the Commission shall be appointed as provided in G.S. 143-241, as amended by this act.
Sec. 3.  G.S. 143-241 reads as rewritten:
"§ 143-241. Appointment and terms of office of Commission members; filling of vacancies.
The members of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission shall be appointed as follows:
The Governor shall appoint one member each from the first, fourth, and seventh wildlife districts to serve six-year terms;
The Governor shall appoint one member each from the second, fifth, and eighth wildlife districts to serve two-year terms;
The Governor shall appoint one member each from the third, sixth, and ninth wildlife districts to serve four-year terms;
The Governor shall also appoint two at-large members to serve four-year terms.
The General Assembly shall appoint two members of the Commission to serve two-year terms, one upon the recommendation of the Speaker of the House and one upon the recommendation of the President of the Senate, in accordance with G.S. 120-121.
Thereafter as the terms of office of the members of the Commission appointed by the Governor from the several wildlife districts expire, their successors shall be appointed for terms of six years each.  As the terms of office of the members of the Commission appointed by the General Assembly expire, their successors shall be appointed for terms of two years each.  All members appointed by the Governor serve at the pleasure of the Governor that appointed them and they may be removed by that Governor at any time.  A successor to the appointing Governor may remove a Commission member only for cause as provided in G.S. 143B-13.  Members appointed by the General Assembly serve at the pleasure of that body and may be removed by law at any time.  In the event that a Commission member is removed, the member appointed to replace the removed member shall serve only for the unexpired term of the removed member.
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Sec. 4.  This act shall not be construed to obligate the General Assembly to make any appropriation to implement the provisions of this act.
Sec. 5.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 25th day of April, 1989.