Are there term limits for county board of health members?
County board of health members are appointed to three-year terms and may serve a maximum of three consecutive three-year terms. There are a couple of exceptions to this general rule. First, if a person is the only county resident who is a member of one of the licensed professions that must be represented on the board, the person may serve more than three consecutive three-year terms.[1] Second, the county commissioner may serve only as long as he or she remains a county commissioner.[2]
[1]G.S. 130A-35 (c).
[2]The NC Attorney General has advised that a county commissioner member of a district board of health may serve for as long as he or she remains a commissioner, even if that time exceeds three consecutive three-year terms. Although the Attorney General’s opinion addressed district boards of health, not county boards of health, this practice has been followed by some county boards of health as well. Attorney General Advisory Opinion to Hal G. Harrison, Mitchell County Attorney, 1998 WL 856356 (Oct. 8, 1998).
