NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 727

HOUSE BILL 973

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 797, SESSION LAWS OF 1957, RELATING TO THE CEMETERY COMMISSION OF THE COUNTY OF GRAHAM.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Chapter 797 of the Session Laws of 1957 is hereby amended by deleting all of Section 2 thereof, and rewriting the said Section to read as follows:

"Sec. 2. The said Graham County Cemetery Commission shall consist of not more than eleven (11) members. The chairman shall, in November 1965 and in November of each second year thereafter, appoint a three (3) member nominating committee, which nominating committee shall submit to the full Cemetery Commission nominees for reappointment or appointment of members of the Commission to serve for the next succeeding two-year term, the first such term to commence on December 1, 1965, and succeeding terms to commence on December 1 of each second year thereafter. Membership on the Commission shall not exceed eleven (11) members. Members shall be selected to represent, as nearly as possible, all of the areas of each county, without regard to political affiliation. In December of 1965, and in December of each second year thereafter, the Commission shall elect from its membership, a chairman, vice-chairman, and such other officers as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Chapter.

"The following persons are appointed to serve as officers of the said Cemetery Commission for terms which shall expire on December 1, 1965: Walter Wiggins, Chairman; Herman Cody, Vice-Chairman; J. B. Cory, Secretary. These appointed officers of the Commission are hereby authorized and empowered to select not more than eight (8) representative citizens from Graham County to serve for two-year terms expiring December 1, 1965.

"The said Commission shall meet at least once in each six-month period, shall keep written minutes of each meeting and of each official act of the Commission, and may meet at such other times as may be necessary, upon the call of the chairman or of any four (4) members of the board."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of June, 1963.