A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to make clarifying, conforming, and technical amendments to various laws related to the Environment, environmental health, and natural resources.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 90A‑55 reads as rewritten:
"§ 90A‑55.  State Board of Sanitarian Examiners; appointment and term of office.
(a)	Board Membership. – The Board shall consist of nine members: the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, or the Secretary's duly authorized representative, one public‑spirited citizen, one environmental sanitation educator from an accredited college or university, one local health director, a representative of the Division of Environmental Health of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and four practicing sanitarians who qualify by education and experience for registration under this Article, three of whom will represent the Western, Piedmont, and Eastern Regions of the State as described more specifically in the rules adopted by the Board.
(b)	Term of Office. – Each member of the State Board of Sanitarian Examiners shall be appointed by the Governor for a term of four years. As the term of each current member expires, the Governor shall appoint a successor in accordance with the provisions of this section. If a vacancy occurs on the Board for any other reason than the expiration of a member's term, the Governor shall appoint a successor for the remainder of the unexpired term. No person shall serve as a member of the Board for more than two consecutive four‑year terms.
(c)	The Environmental Health Section of the North Carolina Public Health Association, Inc., shall submit a recommended list of Board member candidates to the Governor for his consideration in appointments.
(d)	The Governor may remove an appointee member for misconduct in office, incompetency, neglect of duty, or other sufficient cause."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 102‑1.1 reads as rewritten:
"§ 102‑1.1.  Name and description in relation to 1983 North American Datum.
From and after the date and time the North Carolina Geodetic Survey Section in the Division of Land Resources of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources receives from the National Geodetic Survey, official notice of a complete, published definition of the North American Datum of 1983 including the State plane coordinate constants applicable to North Carolina, the official survey base for North Carolina shall be a system of plane coordinates to be known as the "North Carolina Coordinate System of 1983," said system being defined as a Lambert conformal projection of the "Geodetic Reference System (GRS 80 Ellipsoid)" having a central meridian of 79°‑ 00' west from Greenwich and standard parallels of latitude of 34° – 20' and 36º – 10' north of the equator, along which parallels the scale shall be exact. All coordinates of the system are expressed in metres, the x coordinate being measured easterly along the grid and the y coordinate being measured northerly along the grid. The U.S. Survey Foot, 1 meter = 39.37 inches or 3.2808333333 feet, shall be used as a conversion factor. The origin of the coordinates is hereby established on the meridian 79° – 00' west from Greenwich at the intersection of the parallels 33° – 45' north latitude, such origin being given the coordinates x = 609,601.22 metres, y = 0 metres. The precise position of said system shall be as marked on the ground by triangulation or traverse stations or monuments established in conformity with the standards adopted by the National Geodetic Survey for first‑ and second‑order work, whose geodetic positions have been rigidly adjusted on the North American Datum of 1983, and whose plane coordinates have been computed on the system defined. Whenever plane coordinates are used in the description or identification of surface area or location within this State, the coordinates shall be identified as "NAD 83", indicating North American Datum of 1983, or as "NAD 27", indicating North American Datum of 1927."
SECTION 3.  G.S. 105‑277.7(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Creation and Membership. – The Use‑Value Advisory Board is established under the supervision of the Agricultural Extension Service of North Carolina State University. The Director of the Agricultural Extension Service of North Carolina State University shall serve as the chair of the Board. The Board shall consist of the following additional members, to serve ex officio:
(1)	A representative of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, designated by the Commissioner of Agriculture.
(2)	A representative of the Division of Forest Resources of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, designated by the Director of that Division.
(3)	A representative of the Agricultural Extension Service at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, designated by the Director of the Extension Service.
(4)	A representative of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, Inc., designated by the President of the Bureau.
(5)	A representative of the North Carolina Association of Assessing Officers, designated by the President of the Association.
(6)	The Director of the Property Tax Division of the North Carolina Department of Revenue or the Director's designee.
(7)	A representative of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners, designated by the President of the Association.
(8)	A representative of the North Carolina Forestry Association, designated by the President of the Association."
SECTION 4.  G.S. 105‑296(j) reads as rewritten:
"(j)	The assessor must annually review at least one eighth of the parcels in the county classified for taxation at present‑use value to verify that these parcels qualify for the classification. By this method, the assessor must review the eligibility of all parcels classified for taxation at present‑use value in an eight‑year period. The period of the review process is based on the average of the preceding three years' data. The assessor may request assistance from the Farm Service Agency, the Cooperative Extension Service, the Division of Forest Resources of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, or other similar organizations.
The assessor may require the owner of classified property to submit any information, including sound management plans for forestland, needed by the assessor to verify that the property continues to qualify for present‑use value taxation. The owner has 60 days from the date a written request for the information is made to submit the information to the assessor. If the assessor determines the owner failed to make the information requested available in the time required without good cause, the property loses its present‑use value classification and the property's deferred taxes become due and payable as provided in G.S. 105‑277.4(c). The assessor must reinstate the property's present‑use value classification when the owner submits the requested information unless the information discloses that the property no longer qualifies for present‑use value classification. When a property's present‑use value classification is reinstated, it is reinstated retroactive to the date the classification was revoked and any deferred taxes that were paid as a result of the revocation must be refunded to the property owner.
In determining whether property is operating under a sound management program, the assessor must consider any weather conditions or other acts of nature that prevent the growing or harvesting of crops or the realization of income from cattle, swine, or poultry operations. The assessor must also allow the property owner to submit additional information before making this determination."
SECTION 5.  G.S. 113‑56.1 reads as rewritten:
"§ 113‑56.1.  Overtime compensation for forest fire fighting.
The Department shall, within funds appropriated to the Department, provide overtime compensation to the professional employees of the Division of Forest Resources involved in fighting forest fires."
SECTION 6.  G.S. 113‑60.32(1) reads as rewritten:
"(1)	'Fire fighter' means an employee of the Division of Forest Resources of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources who engages in fire suppression duties."
SECTION 7.  G.S. 113‑291.10(a)(4) reads as rewritten:
"(4)	The Director of the Division of Soil and Water Conservation of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, or a designee;".
SECTION 8.  Section 14 of S.L. 2004‑163 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 14.  Notwithstanding G.S. 164‑10, the Revisor of Statutes shall not codify any of the provisions of this act. The Revisor of Statutes shall set out the text of Sections 1 through 13 of this act as a note to G.S. 143‑214.7 and may make notes concerning this act to other sections of the General Statutes as the Revisor of Statutes deems appropriate. The Revisor of Statutes shall set out the text of the Stormwater Management Rule, as defined in Section 12 of this act, and the text of Section 6 of the temporary rule adopted by the Environmental Management Commission on 10 October 2002 as notes to G.S. 143‑214.7."
SECTION 9.  This act is effective when it becomes law.