NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 968

HOUSE BILL 1664

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 713 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1965, AS AMENDED, BEING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE RELATIVE TO EMPLOYMENT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Sec. 4.41(1), Subchapter C of Chapter IV of Chapter 713 of the Session Laws of 1965, as amended, is hereby rewritten as follows: "Employment shall be based on merit without regard to race, creed, color, sex, political affiliation, age or physical defect or impairment of the applicant unless the defect or impairment to some degree shall prevent the applicant from performing the duties required by the employment sought.

Physical defect or impairment shall be defined to mean any physical disability, infirmity, malformation or disfigurement which is caused by bodily injury, birth defect or illness including epilepsy."

Sec. 2. This act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of March, 1974.