GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 567
HOUSE BILL 1081

AN ACT TO MODIFY THE MEMBERSHIP, QUALIFICATIONS FOR APPOINTMENT, AND 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, as amended by Section 1 of Chapter 140 of the 1989 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Section 1.  G.S. 131E-18 is amended by adding at the end the following:
(a)	In Pasquotank County the Board of Commissioners of said county shall appoint a Board of Trustees for Albemarle Hospital, consisting of 15 members, five of whom shall be appointed from Elizabeth City Township, five of whom shall be appointed from elsewhere within Pasquotank County, and one member each shall be appointed from the counties of Camden, Currituck, Dare, Gates, and Perquimans; 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.
(b)	For the initial appointments of members from the counties of Camden, Currituck, Dare, Gates, and Perquimans, three shall be appointed for one-year terms and two for terms of two years, to achieve staggered terms.  All subsequent appointments shall be for two-year terms.
(c)	The members shall elect their chair.  The chair shall reside in Pasquotank County."
Sec. 2.  This act shall apply only to Pasquotank County.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective August 1, 1996, and expires July 31, 2000.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 19th day of June, 1996.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives