Bill Text: NC H1977 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: New Hanover ABC Board Membership
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-26 - Ref to the Com on Local Government II, if favorable, Alcoholic Beverage Control [H1977 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2010-H1977-Amended.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2009
H 1
HOUSE BILL 1977
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Short Title: New Hanover ABC Board Membership. |
(Local) |
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Sponsors: |
Representatives McComas, Justice, Hughes (Primary Sponsors); and Iler. |
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Referred to: |
Local Government II, if favorable, Alcoholic Beverage Control. |
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May 26, 2010
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to increase the new hanover county alcoholic BEVERAGE control board membership from three members to five members and to allow for members of the ABC Board to serve at the pleasure of the board of county commissioners.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Section 4 of Chapter 418 of the 1935 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 4. There is hereby created a County Liquor
Commission to be known and designated as the New Hanover County Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board. The Board shall consist of three five members,
one of whom shall be chairman. The Board shall be appointed by the County
Commissioners of New Hanover County, and shall have the power to fill vacancies
or remove from office any member for misconduct, incompetency or fraud. The
members of this Board shall give bond for the faithful performance of their
duties to the County of New Hanover in the sum of ten thousand dollars each,
and which bond, as to form and execution, shall be approved by the County
Attorney. Each member of the Board shall devote his full time to the
performance of his official duties The main office of the Board shall be
located in the City of Wilmington. an amount not less than five thousand
dollars ($5,000), secured by a corporate surety, for the faithful performance
of the Board member's duties. A public employees' blanket position bond in the
required amount satisfies this requirement. The bond shall be made payable to
the Board and shall be approved by the County Commissioners. The County
Commissioners may exempt from this bond requirement any Board member who does
not handle Board monies, and it may increase the amount of the required bond
for any Board member who does handle Board monies."
SECTION 2. Section 7 of Chapter 418 of the 1935 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 7. The County Commissioners of New Hanover County in naming the Board shall designate the Chairman. The Chairman, when present, shall preside at all meetings and in his absence a member designated by the Chairman shall preside.
Two Three members of the Board shall constitute
a quorum and any action or order of the Board shall require the approval of at
least two three members."
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
