GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2015
SESSION LAW 2015-15
HOUSE BILL 243
AN ACT to modify the composition of the economic development commission for Macon county.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 158‑8 reads as rewritten:
"§ 158‑8. Creation of municipal, county or regional commissions authorized; composition; joining or withdrawing from regional commissions.
The governing body of any
municipality or the board of county commissioners of any county may by
resolution create an economic development commission for said municipality or
county. The governing bodies of any two or more municipalities and/or counties
may by joint resolution, adopted by separate vote of each governing body
concerned, create a regional economic development commission. A municipal or
county economic development commission shall consist of from three to nine 12
members, named for terms and compensation (if any) fixed by its respective
governing body. The membership, compensation (if any), and terms of a regional
economic development commission, and the formula for its financial support,
shall be fixed by the joint resolution creating the commission. Additional
governmental units may join a regional commission with the consent of all
existing members. Any governmental unit may withdraw from a regional commission
on two years' notice to the other members. The resolution creating a municipal,
county, or regional economic development commission may be modified, amended,
or repealed in the same manner as it was originally adopted."
SECTION 2. This act applies to the economic development commission for Macon County only.
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 14th day of May, 2015.
s/ Daniel J. Forest
President of the Senate
s/ Tim Moore
Speaker of the House of Representatives