GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

H	2 

HOUSE BILL 943
Committee Substitute Favorable 4/26/95

Short Title:  Ex-Governor/Emeritus/BOG.	(Public)

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April 12, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT A FORMER GOVERNOR OF THE STATE WHO HAS SERVED AS A MEMBER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF GOVERNORS SHALL BE A MEMBER EMERITUS OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS AND TO PROHIBIT THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS FROM ELECTING A CHAIRMAN BETWEEN THE TIME THAT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS MEMBERS AND THOSE MEMBERS TAKE OFFICE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 116-6(g) reads as rewritten:
"(g)	Effective July 1, 1991, and thereafter, any person who has served as a member of the Board of Governors after having served as Governor of North Carolina shall be a member emeritus of the Board of Governors, with all the rights and privileges of membership as in G.S. 116-6(f)."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 116-8 reads as rewritten:
"§ 116-8.  Chairman, vice-chairman and secretary.
The Board of Governors shall elect from its membership for  two-year terms, and until their successors have been elected and qualified, a chairman, a vice-chairman and a secretary.  Notwithstanding the previous sentence, if a vacancy occurs in the office of chairman between the time that the second house elects members of the Board of Governors under G.S. 116-6 and the time they are to take office under G.S. 116-5, the Board of Governors may not elect a chairman during that period, the vice-chairman shall act as chairman, and if there is neither a chairman nor a vice-chairman, the Board of Governors may elect one of its members chairman pro tempore.  No person may serve as chairman more than four years in succession."
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.