GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION
S.L. 1997-31
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 120-70.42 reads as rewritten:
"§
120-70.42. Membership; cochairmencochairs; vacancies;
quorum.
The Environmental Review Commission shall consist of five six
Senators appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, five six
Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
who shall serve at the pleasure of their appointing officer, the Chairman Chair
of the Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, and the Chairman
Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on the
Environment. The President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall designate one
Senator to serve as cochairman cochair and the Speaker of the
House of Representatives shall designate one Representative to serve as cochairmancochair.
Any vacancy which occurs on the Environmental Review Commission shall be filled
in the same manner as the original appointment. A quorum of the
Environmental Review Commission shall consist of seven eight members."
Section 2. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to any appointments for terms beginning on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 10th day of April, 1997.
s/ Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
s/ Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor
Approved 5:50 p.m. this 17th day of April, 1997