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- Session laws and resolutions passed by the General Assembly [2003]
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Session laws and resolutions passed by the General Assembly [2003]
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S.L. 2003-87
Session Laws - 2003
H.B. 355 Session Law 2003-87
AN ACT TO OFFICIALLY DESIGNATE THE INDIANS PREVIOUSLY
RECOGNIZED IN THE GENERAL STATUTES AS THE INDIANS OF PERSON
COUNTY AS SAPPONY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 71 A-7 reads as rewritten:
"§ 71A-7. Indians of Person County; The Sappony; rights, privileges, immunities,
obligations, and duties.
The Indian Tribe now residing in Person County, officially recognized as the Indians
of Person County by Chapter 22 of the Public-Local Laws of 1913. The Indians who are
descendants of those Indians living in Person County for whom the High Plains Indian
School was established, shall, from and after July 20, 1971, February 3, 1913, be
designated and officially recognized as the-Ineh-ans-o-f-P-ersen-Ceunty— North-Garehnar
Sappony, and shall continue to enjoy all their rights, privileges, and immunities as
citizens of the State as now or hereafter provided by law, and shall continue to be
subject to all the obligations and duties of citizens under the law."
SECTION 2. G.S. 143B-407(a) reads as rewritten:
"§ 143B-407. North Carolina State Commission of Indian Affairs - membership;
term of office; chairman; compensation.
(a) The State Commission of Indian Affairs shall consist of two persons
appointed by the General Assembly, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the
Director of the State Employment Security Commission, the Secretary of
Administration, the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, the
Commissioner of Labor or their designees and 21 representatives of the Indian
community. These Indian members shall be selected by tribal or community consent
from the Indian groups that are recognized by the State of North Carolina and are
principally geographically located as follows: the Coharie of Sampson and Harnett
Counties; the Eastern Band of Cherokees; the Haliwa Saponi of Halifax, Warren, and
adjoining counties; the Lumbees of Robeson, Hoke and Scotland Counties; the
Meherrin of Hertford County; the Waccamaw-Siouan from Columbus and Bladen
Counties; the Indians of Person County; Sappony; the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi
Nation of Alamance and Orange Counties, and the Native Americans located in
Cumberland, Guilford, Johnston, Mecklenburg, Orange, and Wake Counties. The
Coharie shall have two members; the Eastern Band of Cherokees, two; the Haliwa
Saponi, two; the Lumbees, three; the Meherrin, one; the Waccamaw-Siouan, two; the
Indians of Person County.Sappony, one; the Cumberland County Association for Indian
People, two; the Guilford Native Americans, two; the Metrolina Native Americans, two;
the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, one, the Triangle Native American Society,
one. Of the two appointments made by the General Assembly, one shall be made upon
the recommendation of the Speaker, and one shall be made upon recommendation of the
President Pro Tempore of the Senate. Appointments by the General Assembly shall be
made in accordance with G.S. 120-121 and vacancies shall be filled in accordance with
G.S. 120-122."
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