GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

H	2 

HOUSE BILL 630
Committee Substitute Favorable 6/12/91

Short Title:  Brunswick Redistricting.	(Local)
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April 9, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR REDISTRICTING OF THE BRUNSWICK COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS AND THE BRUNSWICK COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The Brunswick County Board of Commissioners may revise the districts in which board members must reside in accordance with this section. The Board may revise the districts without submitting the revisions to a referendum. If the Board revises the districts, it must do so:
a.	during the calendar year 1991;
b.	in the direction of making the districts more equal in population according to the 1990 census; and
c.	in accordance with the United States Constitution, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, and any other applicable federal law. 
Sec. 2.  The Brunswick County Board of Education may revise the districts in which board members must reside in accordance with this section. The Board may revise the districts without submitting the revisions to a referendum. If the Board revises the districts, it must do so:
a.	during the calendar year 1991;
b.	in the direction of making the districts more equal in population according to the 1990 census; and
c.	in accordance with the United States Constitution, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, and any other applicable federal law. 
Sec. 3.  Nothing in this act authorizes either the Brunswick County Board of Commissioners or the Brunswick County Board of Education to change the number of districts in either board.
Sec. 4.  Nothing in this act shall prevent the Brunswick County Board of Commissioners or Brunswick County Board of Education from exercising any power granted to boards of commissioners or boards of education in any general law ratified subsequent to the ratification of this act.  
Sec. 5.  This act is effective upon ratification.