NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1334

HOUSE BILL 1533

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE PROCEDURE TO BE FOLLOWED IN THE GIVING OF ALL EXAMINATIONS FOR OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING BOARDS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 93B of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new section immediately after G.S. 93B-5, to be numbered G.S. 93B-6 and to read as follows:

"§ 93B-6.  Examination procedures. — (a) Each applicant for an examination given by any occupational licensing board shall be informed in writing or print of the required grade for passing the examination prior to the taking of such examination.

(b)        Each applicant for an examination given by any occupational licensing board shall be identified, for purposes of the examination, only by number rather than by name.

(c)        Each applicant who takes an examination given by any occupational licensing board, and does not pass such examination, shall have the privilege to review his examination in the presence of the board or a representative of the board.

(d)        Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, under no circumstances shall an occupational licensing board be required to disclose to an applicant questions or answers to tests provided by recognized testing organizations pursuant to contracts which prohibit such disclosures."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective January 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of April, 1974.