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

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 1 of S.L. 1991-404, as supplemented by S.L. 1993-468, 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 5th day of May, 2004.

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

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		 Richard T. Morgan
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives