GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 995

HOUSE BILL 1517

 

AN ACT TO ABOLISH CERTAIN EXECUTIVE BRANCH BOARDS AND TO CONSOLIDATE THE FUNCTIONS OF CERTAIN EXECUTIVE BRANCH BOARDS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Secretary of the Department of Administration shall abolish the North Carolina New Horizons Task Force within 30 days of the effective date of this act.

Sec. 2.  The Secretary of the Department of Administration shall abolish the North Carolina Oil Re-refining Facility Board of Directors within 30 days of the effective date of this act.

Sec. 3.  The Secretary of the Department of Administration shall abolish the Retired Senior Executives Advisory Committee within 30 days of the effective date of this act.

Sec. 4.  Article 8 of Chapter 113A of the General Statutes is repealed.

G.S. 120-123(11) is repealed.

Sec. 5.  The Secretary of the Department of Administration shall abolish the Commission on the Future of North Carolina within 30 days of the effective date of this act.

Sec. 6.  The Secretary of the Department of Commerce shall abolish the Employment Security Commission Advisory Council within 30 days of the effective date of this act.

G.S. 96-4(e) is amended by deleting the words "a State Advisory Council and" in the first sentence and by deleting the last sentence.

Sec. 7.  The President of the Department of Community Colleges shall abolish the Occupational Education Research Services Advisory Council within 30 days of the effective date of this act.

Sec. 8.  G.S. 143B-480(a) is amended by deleting the words and punctuation "the Crime Prevention and Public Information Committee,".

G.S. 143B-480(c)(1) is repealed.

Sec. 9.  The Secretary of the Department of Human Resources shall abolish the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Project Council within 30 days of the effective date of this act.

Sec. 10.  The Secretary of the Department of Human Resources shall abolish the Statewide Education and Training Advisory Committee, the South Central Region Education and Training Advisory Committee, the Western Region Education and Training Advisory Committee, the Eastern Region Education and Training Advisory Committee, and the Northern Region Education and Training Advisory Committee within 30 days of the effective date of this act.

Sec. 11.  G.S. 143B-279(18) is repealed.  Part 18 of Article 7 of Chapter 143B of the General Statutes is repealed.

Sec. 12.  G.S. 143B-279(14) is repealed.  Part 14 of Article 7 of Chapter 143B of the General Statutes is repealed.

Sec. 13.  Part 25 of Article 7 of Chapter 143B of the General Statutes is repealed.

Sec. 14.  G.S. 143B-279(16) is repealed.  Part 16 of Article 7 of Chapter 143B of the General Statutes is repealed.

Sec. 15.  The Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development shall abolish the Water Policy Advisory Committee for Section 208 of the Clean Water Act within 30 days of the effective date of this act.

Sec. 16.  The Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development shall abolish the Chowan Regional Task Force within 30 days of the effective date of this act.

Sec. 17.  G.S. 115C-575 is repealed.

Sec. 18.  The Secretary of the Department of State Transportation shall abolish the North Carolina Highway Contract Oversight Commission within 30 days of the effective date of this act.

Sec. 19.  G.S. 120-123(16) is rewritten to read:

"(16)   The Governor's Commission on Governmental Productivity, as established by G.S. 126-64."

Article 11 of Chapter 126 is amended by rewriting the heading to read:

"Governor's Commission on Governmental Productivity."

G.S. 126-64 is rewritten to read:

"§ 126-64. Commission's authority to administer incentive pay program for State employees.-The Governor's Commission on Governmental Productivity is authorized, in addition to other powers and functions assigned to it by the Governor, to adopt policies and procedures to establish and administer an incentive pay program for State employees. The Commission shall consist of not more than 21 members, all of whom shall be appointed by the Governor."

G.S. 126-65, G.S. 126-66, G.S. 126-67, and G.S. 126-68 are amended by deleting the word "Committee" everywhere it appears in those sections and inserting in lieu thereof the word "Commission".

Sec. 20.  The Task Force on the International Year of Disabled Persons is abolished.

G.S. 143B-403.1 is amended by renumbering subdivision (11) as subdivision (12) and by inserting a new subdivision (11) to read:

"(11)   To initiate public awareness projects and to make recommendations to the Governor concerning broad policies pertaining to rehabilitation for disabled persons."

Sec. 21.  The State Superintendent for Public Instruction shall abolish the Edwin Gill Theater Project Selection Committee within 30 days of the effective date of this act.  The Department of Public Instruction is authorized to perform the functions of this Committee.

Sec. 22.  G.S. 143B-83, as it existed before it was repealed by Chapter 504 of the 1979 Session Laws, is reenacted.

Sec. 23.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of June, 1984.