NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 99

HOUSE BILL 391

 

 

AN ACT TO TRANSFER CONTROL OF THE STATE LEGISLATIVE BUILDING TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Article 7 of G.S. Chapter 120 is amended by adding a new section to read as follows:

"§ 120-32.1.  Use and maintenance of State Legislative Building. — (a) The Legislative Services Commission shall determine policy governing the use of the State Legislative Building; make allocations of space within the State Legislative Building and grounds encompassed by Jones, Wilmington, Lane and Salisbury Streets; be responsible for the maintenance, security, control and care of the State Legislative Building; and promulgate rules and regulations governing the use of the State Legislative Building and its facilities. In discharging the responsibilities of maintenance of the State Legislative Building, the Legislative Services Commission may delegate to the Department of Administration the duty of performing the actual work of maintenance of the building, and the Department of Administration shall provide such maintenance services as may be delegated, subject to the direction of the Legislative Services Commission.

(b)        The rules and regulations promulgated by the Legislative Services Commission under the authority of this section shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the State Legislative Building, and a copy of the rules and regulations and all amendments thereto, certified by the Chairman of the Legislative Services Commission, shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State and in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court of Wake County. When so posted and filed, these rules and regulations shall constitute notice to all persons of the existence and text of the rules and regulations. Any person, whether on his own behalf or for another, or acting as an agent or representative of any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association, who knowingly violates any of the rules or regulations promulgated, posted and filed under the authority of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction or a plea of guilty shall be punished by a fine or imprisonment in the discretion of the court, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association who combines, confederates, conspires, aids, abets, solicits, urges, instigates, counsels, advises, encourages or procures another or others to knowingly violate any of the rules and regulations promulgated, posted and filed under the authority of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction or a plea of guilty shall be punished by a fine or imprisonment in the discretion of the court, or by both such fine and imprisonment."

Sec. 2.  That part of the appropriation made in the 1971 Budget Appropriations Act, Chapter 708 of the Session Laws of 1971, to the Department of Administration for the Legislative Building for the fiscal year 1972-1973, being the sum of two hundred fifty three thousand nine hundred three dollars ($253,903) — Budget Code 10161, Item 5D — is transferred to the General Assembly, Budget Code 10021. The functions, duties and staff of the Department of Administration supported by the appropriation herein transferred are also transferred to the General Assembly to be administered by the Legislative Services Officer pursuant to policy directives of the Legislative Services Commission. Personnel transferred under this section shall be transferred at their existing job classifications and salaries. The appropriation support for the expenditures made prior to the ratification of this act shall remain with the Department of Administration budget.

Sec. 3.  Article 3 of Chapter 129 of the General Statutes is repealed. Any unexpended moneys held by the State Treasurer to the credit of the State Legislative Building Commission are transferred to the credit of the Legislative Services Commission. The Legislative Services Commission is authorized to use such moneys for capital improvements, alterations, and repairs to the State Legislative Building and for the purchase of equipment, furnishings or fixtures for the State Legislative Building.

Sec. 4.  Article 3.1 of Chapter 129 of the General Statutes is repealed.

Sec. 5.  This act shall take effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of March, 1973.