GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 929

HOUSE BILL 2345

 

AN ACT TO EXPAND THE STANLY COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 2 of Chapter 419, Session Laws of 1971, as amended by Chapter 238, Session Laws of 1983, reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 2.  The Airport Authority shall consist of five six members who shall be appointed to staggered terms of four years by the Stanly County Board of Commissioners.  All of the members shall be residents of the County.  The terms of the initial five five appointed members of the Airport Authority shall be as follows: two members to be appointed to a term of four years; three members appointed for a term of two years. serving terms expiring March 31, 1989, and three members serving terms expiring March 31, 1991. Thereafter, all terms shall be for four years. Each of the members and their successors so appointed shall take and subscribe before the Clerk of the Superior Court of Stanly County, an oath of office and file same with the Stanly County Board of Commissioners.  Upon the occurrence of any vacancy on said Airport Authority, said vacancy shall be filled within 60 days after notice thereof at a regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners.  The Board of Commissioners may determine that one of the five One of the six members shall be a county commissioner, whose term on the Airport Authority shall run concurrently with that member's term as county commissioner.  In the event the case of the member of the Stanly County Board of Commissioners should appoint one of the members of that said Board serving as a voting member of the said Airport Authority, such membership shall not constitute double office holding within the meaning of Article VI, Sec. 9 of the Constitution of North Carolina, but instead is service ex officio."

Sec. 2.  The additional member of the Stanly County Airport Authority authorized by Section 1 of this act shall be appointed for an initial term expiring March 31, 1991, and is one of the three with terms expiring then as indicated in Section 1 of this act.  This act does not affect the term of office of any other member of that authority.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of June, 1988.