- Title
- Session laws and resolutions passed by the General Assembly [1956-1957]
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- Date
- 1956 - 1957
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- Creator
- ["North Carolina."]
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- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Session laws and resolutions passed by the General Assembly [1956-1957]
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CH.
64-65
1957 —
Session Laws
Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby
repealed.
Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its
ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th
day of March, 1957.
S. B. 28 CHAPTER 65
AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 136 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES
RELATING TO TIIE STATE HIGHWAY AND PUBLIC WORKS
COMMISSION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. G. S. 130-1 is hereby amended by rewriting said Section to
read as follows:
"Sec. 136.1. State Highway Commission Created. — There is hereby
created a State Highway Commission, to be composed of seven members
appointed by the Governor from different areas of the State. The Governor
shall, on July 1, 1957, appoint four members to serve for four years, and
three members to serve for two years, and the Governor shall thereafter
appoint their successors for four-year terms. On July 1, 1957, and bien¬
nially thereafter, the Governor shall designate one of the said members
to serve as Chairman of the Commission for two years. Any member ap¬
pointed pursuant to this Section may be removed from office by the
Governor for cause. In case of death, resignation, or removal from office
of a Commissioner prior to the expiration of his term of office, his successor
shall be appointed by the Governor to fill out the unexpired term. The
Commissioners shall each receive while engaged in the discharge of the
duties of their office such per diem, subsistence, and necessary travel ex¬
penses as is provided by law for members of State Boards and Commissions
generally.
"It is the intent and purpose of this Section that the Commissioners
shall represent the entire State and not represent any particular area;
provided, however, that the Governor and the State Highway Commission
shall, without regard to the boundaries of engineering divisions, divide
the State into geographic areas, and assign one or more Commissioners to
each area to be responsible for relations with the public generally and
with individual citizens regarding highway matters; and provided fur¬
ther that the Highway Commission shall within the State hold at least
one meeting each year in a town or city East of Raleigh, one meeting in
a town or city West of Raleigh but East of Hickory, and one meeting in
a town or city located in the remaining western part of the State at
which meetings the Commission shall in addition to its other business be
available to the members of the public who wish to be heard regarding
highway matters. In addition the State Highway Commission shall from
time to time provide that one or more of its members or representatives
shall publicly hear any person or persons desiring to bring to their atten-
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