GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2009
SESSION LAW 2009-249
SENATE BILL 389
AN ACT to AUTHORIZE THE housing authority of the city of charlotte and the robeson county housing authority TO PARTICIPATE IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM WITHOUT PROVIDING PRIOR SERVICE CREDITS TO their EMPLOYEES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the Housing Authority of the City of Charlotte or the Robeson County Housing Authority becomes a member of the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System, the authority board may elect to provide no prior service credit in the Retirement System for employees employed prior to the date that the authority becomes a participating employer in the Retirement System. If no prior service credit is given for employees of the authority for service provided to the authority prior to its participation in the Retirement System, then the authority shall not be required to pay for any prior service credits for its employees.
SECTION 2. This act applies only to the Housing Authority of the City of Charlotte and the Robeson County Housing Authority.
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 1st day of July, 2009.
s/ Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
s/ Joe Hackney
Speaker of the House of Representatives