GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2007
SESSION LAW 2007-70
SENATE BILL 595
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 said Public
Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County shall be governed by a board of seven
11 trustees. Six 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 four trustees currently in office who were selected by
the Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners of Mecklenburg County and the
Mayor of the City of Charlotte pursuant to Chapter 710 of the Session Laws of
1965 shall serve the remainders of the terms for which they were appointed.
Two additional trustees shall be appointed by the board of county
commissioners for terms to expire on January 1, 1980, and one additional
trustee shall be appointed by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education for
a term to expire on January 1, 1982. 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.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of June, 2007.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ Joe Hackney
Speaker of the House of Representatives