NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 520

HOUSE BILL 875

 

 

AN ACT TO REMOVE MOST RESTRICTIONS ON POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF MEMBERS OF STATE COMMISSIONS, BOARDS, COUNCILS, AND COMMITTEES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 143B-13(c) is rewritten to read:

"(c)       No member of a State commission may use his position to influence any election or the political activity of any person, and any such member who violates this subsection may be removed from such office by the Governor, if such member was appointed by the Governor, or by the appointing authority, if such member was not appointed by the Governor. Nothing herein shall prohibit such member from publishing the fact of his membership in his own campaign for public office."

Sec. 2. G.S. 143B-16 is amended by adding at the end of the first paragraph a second paragraph which reads:

"No member of a board, council, or committee may use his position to influence any election or the political activity of any person, and any such member who violates this subsection may be removed from such office by the Governor, if such member was appointed by the Governor, or by the appointing authority, if such member was not appointed by the Governor. Nothing herein shall prohibit such member from publishing the fact of his membership in his own campaign for public office."

Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 5th day of June, 1981.