GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION

CHAPTER 95
HOUSE BILL 407

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING FOR BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IN THE YEAR OF THEIR ELECTION SHALL TAKE PLACE ON THE DATE THEIR TERM STARTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 153A-39 reads as rewritten:
"§ 153A-39.  Selection of chairman and vice-chairman; powers and duties.
On:
(1)	The first Monday in December of each even-numbered year; and
(2)	Its first regular meeting in December of each odd-numbered year,
the board of commissioners shall choose one of its members as chairman for the ensuing year, unless the chairman is elected as such by the people or otherwise designated by law.  The board shall also at that time choose a vice-chairman to act in the absence or disability of the chairman.  If the chairman and the vice-chairman are both absent from a meeting of the board, the members present may choose a temporary chairman.
The chairman is the presiding officer of the board of commissioners.  Unless excused by rule of the board, the presiding officer has the duty to vote on any question before the board, but he has no right to break a tie vote in which he participated."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 1st day of June, 1993.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives