A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to modify the appointment process for trustees of the public library of Charlotte and mecklenburg county.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Subsection (a) of Section 2 of Chapter 710 of the Session Laws of 1965, as rewritten by Section 1 of Chapter 368 of the 1979 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"(a)	The Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County shall be governed by a board of 11 trustees. Ten trustees shall be appointed by the Board of County Commissioners of Mecklenburg County and one shall be appointed by the Charlotte‑Mecklenburg Board of Education. No person shall be eligible to serve as a trustee during the time he holds any elective public office. The trustees currently in office shall serve the remainders of the terms for which they were appointed. Thereafter, all terms of office for trustees shall be four years, except that an appointment to fill a vacancy of an unexpired term shall be for the remainder of the unexpired term only, and provided that all trustees shall continue in office until their successors are qualified and appointed. Any trustee appointed by the board of county commissioners may be removed with or without cause at any time by a four‑fifths vote of the board of county commissioners. The trustee appointed by the Charlotte‑Mecklenburg Board of Education may be removed with or without cause at any time by a two‑thirds vote of the members of that board. A trustee shall be removed upon missing three consecutive meetings of the board of trustees without good cause. All trustees shall serve without compensation."
SECTION 2.  The Mecklenburg County Board of County Commissioners shall appoint two of the additional members authorized by this act within 12 months of the effective date of this act.  The remaining two appointments shall be made within 24 months of the effective date of this act.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.