Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:4831 Primary Sponsor:Anderson Committee Number:26 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Housing authority commissioners Residing Body:House Current Committee:Labor, Commerce and Industry Date Tabled:19940329 Computer Document Number:PT/1063DW.94 Introduced Date:19940301 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19940329 Last History Type:Tabled in Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Anderson McMahand Type of Legislation:General Bill
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN Leg Involved ____ ______ ____________ ______________________________ ___ ____________ 4831 House 19940329 Tabled in Committee 26 4831 House 19940301 Introduced, read first time, 26 referred to CommitteeView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
TO AMEND SECTION 31-3-340, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE APPOINTMENT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF A HOUSING AUTHORITY, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE COUNCIL SHALL MAKE THE APPOINTMENTS INSTEAD OF THE MAYOR.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 31-3-340 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 181 of 1993, is further amended to read:
"Section 31-3-340. When the council of a city municipality adopts a resolution as aforesaid provided in this chapter, it shall the council promptly notify the mayor of such adoption. Upon receiving such notice the mayor shall appoint five persons as commissioners of the authority created for the municipality. The commissioners who are first appointed shall must be designated to serve for terms of one, two, three, four, and five years, respectively, from the date of their appointment, but thereafter commissioners shall must be appointed as aforesaid for a term of office of five years except that all vacancies shall must be filled for the unexpired term. No commissioner of an authority may be an officer or employee of the city for which the authority is created. A commissioner shall hold office until his successor has been appointed and has qualified. A certificate of the appointment or reappointment of any commissioner shall must be filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the city is located, in the office of the Secretary of State, and in the office of the Director of the Department of Commerce and such the certificate shall be is conclusive evidence of the due and proper appointment of such the commissioner."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.