NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 859

HOUSE BILL 559

 

 

AN ACT TO REWRITE G.S. 143-240 AND G.S. 143-241 RELATING TO THE WILDLIFE RESOURCES COMMISSION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 737 of the Session Laws of 1961 is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2.  G.S. 143-240, as the same appears in Volume 3C (1964 Replacement Volume) of the General Statutes of North Carolina, is hereby rewritten in its entirety to read as follows:

"§ 143-240.  Creation of Wildlife Resources Commission; Districts; Qualifications of Members. There is hereby created a commission to be known as the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. The commission shall consist of nine citizens of North Carolina, who shall be competent and qualified as herein provided, and who shall be appointed by the Governor. One and only one of the commission members shall be appointed from each of the following geographical districts:

First District to be composed of the following counties: Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Washington.

Second District to be composed of the following counties: Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow, Pamlico, Pender, Pitt.

Third District to be composed of the following counties: Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Johnston, Nash, Northampton, Vance, Wake, Warren, Wayne, Wilson.

Fourth District to be composed of the following counties: Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, New Hanover, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland.

Fifth District to be composed of the following counties: Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Durham, Granville, Guilford, Lee, Orange, Person, Randolph, Rockingham.

Sixth District to be composed of the following counties: Anson, Cabarrus, Davidson, Mecklenburg, Moore, Montgomery, Richmond, Rowan, Stanly, Union.

Seventh District to be composed of the following counties: Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Davie, Forsyth, Iredell, Stokes, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin.

Eighth District to be composed of the following counties: Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, McDowell, Mitchell, Rutherford, Yancey.

Ninth District to be composed of the following counties: Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, Polk, Swain, Transylvania.

"Each member of the commission shall be an experienced hunter, fisherman, farmer, or biologist, who shall be generally informed on wildlife conservation and restoration problems."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 143-241, as the same appears in Volume 3C (1964 Replacement Volume) of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby rewritten in its entirety to read as follows:

"§ 143-241.  Appointment and Terms of Office of Commission. The terms of office of the members of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission who are now serving as members from the State at large shall expire June 30, 1965. The terms of the remaining nine incumbent members of said commission shall not expire until the end of the terms for which they were appointed.

"On the first day of July 1965 and thereafter, the Governor shall appoint members of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission from the several geographical districts set forth in G.S. 143-240 as follows:

On July 1, 1965, one from each of districts two, five and eight to serve six years each;

On July 1, 1967, one member from each of districts three, six and nine, to serve terms of six years each;

On July 1, 1969, one member from each of districts one, four and seven, to serve terms of six years each.

"Thereafter as the terms of office of the members of the commission from the several districts expire, their successors shall be appointed for terms of six years each.

"All members appointed pursuant to this Section shall serve until their successors are appointed and qualified. Any member of the commission appointed pursuant to this Section may be removed by the Governor for cause."

Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.  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 8th day of June, 1965.