2005 North Carolina Code - General Statutes Article 19 - Roanoke Island Historical Association.

Article 19.

Roanoke Island Historical Association.

§ 143‑199.� Association under patronage and control of State.

Roanoke Island Historical Association, Incorporated is hereby permanently placed under the patronage and control of the State. (1945, c. 953, s. 1.)

 

§ 143‑200.� Members of board of directors; terms; appointment.

The governing body of the Association shall be a board of directors consisting of the Governor of the State, the Attorney General, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Chair of the Dare County Board of Commissioners, and the Secretary of Cultural Resources, or their designees, as ex officio members, and the following 21 members: J. Spencer Love, Greensboro; Miles Clark, Elizabeth City; Mrs. Richard J. Reynolds, Winston‑Salem; D. Hiden Ramsey, Asheville; Mrs. Charles A. Cannon, Concord; Dr. Fred Hanes, Durham; Mrs. Frank P. Graham, Chapel Hill; Bishop Thomas C. Darst, Wilmington; W. Dorsey Pruden, Edenton; John A. Buchanan, Durham; William B. Rodman, Jr., Washington; J. Melville Broughton, Raleigh; Melvin R. Daniels, Manteo; Paul Green, Chapel Hill; Samuel Selden, Chapel Hill; R. Bruce Etheridge, Manteo; Theodore S. Meekins, Manteo; Roy L. Davis, Manteo; M. K. Fearing, Manteo; A. R. Newsome, Chapel Hill. The members of the board of directors herein named other than the ex officio members, shall serve for a term of three years and until their successors are appointed. Appointments thereafter shall be made by the membership of the Association in regular annual meeting or special meeting called for such purpose. In the event the Association through its membership should fail to make such appointments, then the appointments shall be made by the Governor of the State. If a vacancy occurs between annual meetings, the board of directors may fill the vacancy until the next annual meeting. All vacancies occurring on the board of directors not filled by the board of directors within 30 days of the vacancy shall be filled by the Governor of the State. (1945, c. 953, s. 2; 1973, c. 476, s. 48; 1996, 2nd Ex. Sess., c. 18, s. 11.1(a); 1999‑32, s. 1; 1999‑431, s. 3.1.)

 

§ 143‑201.� Bylaws; officers of board.

The said board of directors when organized under the terms of this Article shall have authority to adopt bylaws for the organization and said bylaws shall thereafter be subject to change only by three‑fifths vote of a quorum of said board of directors; the board of directors shall choose from its membership or from the membership of the Association a chairman, a vice‑chairman, a secretary and a treasurer, which offices in the discretion of the board may be combined in one, and also a historian and a general counsel. The board also in its discretion may choose one or more honorary vice‑chairmen. The duly elected officers of the Association shall serve as an advisory committee to the Secretary of Cultural Resources concerning matters relating to "The Lost Colony" historical drama. (1945, c. 953, s. 3; 1973, c. 476, s. 87.)

 

§ 143‑202.� Exempt from taxation; gifts and donations.

The said Association is and shall be an educational and charitable association within the meaning of the laws of the State of North Carolina, and the property and income of such Association, real and personal, shall be exempt from all taxation. The said Association is authorized and empowered to receive gifts and donations and administer the same for the charitable and educational purposes for which the Association is formed and in keeping with the will of the donors, and such gifts and donations to the extent permitted by law shall be exempted from the purpose of income taxes and gift taxes. (1945, c. 953, s. 4.)

 

§ 143‑203.� Repealed by Session Laws 1983, c. 913, s. 39, effective July 22, 1983.

 

§ 143‑204.� Repealed by Session Laws 1977, c. 996, s. 3.