GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 63

HOUSE BILL 165

 

AN ACT TO DEFINE THE TERM OF THE LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH COMMISSION AND TO ALLOW THE LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH COMMISSION TO CONTINUE TO ACT CONCERNING THE STATE'S INTEREST IN RAILROAD PROPERTIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 120-30.11 is rewritten to read:

"§ 120-30.11.  Time of appointments; terms of office. - Appointments to the Legislative Research Commission shall be made not earlier than the close of each regular session of the General Assembly held in the odd-numbered year nor later than 15 days subsequent to the close. The term of office shall begin on the day of appointment, and shall end on the fourth Friday in November of the next even-numbered year. Except for the work of the Administrative Rules Review Committee, no monies appropriated to the Legislative Research Commission may be expended for meetings of the Commission, its committees or subcommittees held after the fourth Friday in November of the next even-numbered year and before the appointment of the next Legislative Research Commission."

Sec. 2.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the terms of office of the members of the Legislative Research Commission in office on December 31, 1982, are extended to expire upon the appointment of their successors.  The Legislative Research Commission may meet and expend funds during the regular session of the General Assembly for the purposes of taking actions authorized by Chapter 1372, Session Laws of 1981 (Regular Session, 1982).

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

Section 2 of this act shall expire July 1, 1983.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of March, 1983.