AN ACT to change the name of the edgecombe county school system.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 1 of Chapter 404 of the 1991 Session Laws, as supplemented by Chapter 468 of the 1993 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Section 1.  Effective Date. The existing Edgecombe County School Administrative Unit (hereinafter referred to as the "county unit") and the existing Tarboro City School Administrative Unit (hereinafter referred to as the "city unit") shall be merged effective July 1, 1993.  The resulting merged administrative unit shall be known as the Edgecombe County Public School System (hereinafter referred to as the "merged unit")."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2003.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 2nd day of June, 2003.

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Richard T. Morgan
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives