NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1103

HOUSE BILL 1568

 

 

AN ACT AMENDING CHAPTER 653 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1965 TO LIMIT THE TERM OF OFFICE FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY OF LEXINGTON BOARD OF ALCOHOLIC CONTROL AND TO ESTABLISH A RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Chapter 653 of the Session Laws of 1965 is amended by adding at the end of Section 4 the following language: All members of the City of Lexington Board of Alcoholic Control shall be residents of the City of Lexington, and establishment of residence outside the City of Lexington shall be grounds for removal of a member of the City of Lexington Board of Alcoholic Control upon resolution of the City Council of the City of Lexington.  No member of the Board of Alcoholic Control shall serve more than two three-year terms consecutively; but a member shall be eligible for reappointment after the expiration of one year after serving two consecutive three-year terms.  Members of the Board of Alcoholic Control serving on the date of ratification of this act may serve an additional three-year term at the expiration of their current terms.  Serving part of an unexpired term shall not be considered as serving a three-year term.

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of June, 1980.