GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

SESSION LAW 2013-254

HOUSE BILL 441

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE BOARD OF drainage COMMISSIONERS OF robeson COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICT NUMBER one FROM THREE PERSONS TO four PERSONS and to allow two of them to serve each watershed within the district.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 156-79 and Chapter 332 of the 1967 Session Laws, the Board of Drainage Commissioners of Robeson County Drainage District Number One shall consist of four members. Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 156-81 and Chapter 332 of the 1967 Session Laws, the Board of Drainage Commissioners of Robeson County Drainage District Number One shall serve four-year terms.

SECTION 2.(a)  The three current members of the Board of Drainage Commissioners of Robeson County Drainage District Number One shall serve the remainder of their terms. A fourth member shall be appointed to serve until September 30, 2016. Two members shall serve the Jacob Swamp Watershed and two shall serve the Back Swamp Watershed.

SECTION 2.(b)  Successors shall be appointed by the Clerk of Superior Court of Robeson County in accordance with Article 6 of Chapter 156 of the General Statutes, except that the successor to each member shall serve the watershed designated under subsection (a) of this section. If a vacancy shall occur in the office of any commissioner by death, resignation, or otherwise, the remaining members are to discharge the necessary duties of the board until the vacancy shall be filled; and if the vacancy shall be in the office of chairman or secretary, the remaining members may elect a secretary, and the clerk or clerks, as the case may be, shall appoint one of the remaining members to act as chairman to hold until the vacancy in the board shall be filled.

SECTION 3.  The Board of Drainage Commissioners of Robeson County Drainage District Number One may by resolution assign duties under Subchapter III of Chapter 156 of the General Statutes for a particular watershed to the two persons serving that watershed.

SECTION 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 9^th day of July, 2013.

                                                                    s/  Daniel J. Forest

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/  Thom Tillis

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives