GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1987 SESSION
CHAPTER 1014
AN ACT TO CHANGE THE COMPOSITION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE INDIAN HOUSING AUTHORITY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 157-68 reads as rewritten:
"§ 157-68. Commissioners of Authority.-The Authority shall consist of five commissioners
not less than five nor more than nine commissioners (the number to be
set by the North Carolina State Commission of Indian Affairs) who shall be
appointed by the Governor, after receiving nominations from the North
Carolina State Commission of Indian Affairs. For each vacancy, the
Governor must appoint one person from a list of two eligible persons so
nominated. Commissioners shall be selected from the following major
groups of North Carolina Indians: the Haliwa, the Coharie, the Waccamaw Siouan,
and the Lumbee tribes; and the Cumberland County, Guilford, and Metrolina
Associations major groups of North Carolina Indians that elect members
to the North Carolina State Commission of Indian Affairs under G.S. 143B-407.
No person shall be barred from serving as a commissioner because he is a tenant
or home buyer in an Indian housing project."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification, but does not affect the term of office of any current member of the North Carolina State Indian Housing Authority.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 29th day of June, 1988.