NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 685
SENATE BILL 803

AN ACT TO AMEND THE STATUTES GOVERNING PRINTING OF THE SESSION LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 120-34 is amended by rewriting paragraph (a) thereof to read as follows:
"(a)	The Legislative Services Commission, immediately upon the termination of each session of the General Assembly, shall cause to be published all the laws and joint resolutions passed at that session, whether the laws and resolutions be public, private, general or special within the meaning of the Constitution, and without regard to classification, except that the laws and resolutions shall be kept separate and indexed separately; and the volume shall contain the certificate of the Secretary of State that it was printed under the direction of the Legislative Services Commission from ratified acts and resolutions on file in the office of the Secretary of State. In printing, the signatures of the presiding officers shall be omitted."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 120-32 is amended by rewriting paragraph (7) a. thereof to read as follows:
"(7)	a.	Provide for the indexing and printing of the session laws of each regular, extra or special session of the General Assembly and provide for the printing of the journal of each house of the General Assembly.
Sec. 3.  G.S. 147-54.1 is hereby rewritten in its entirety to read as follows:
"§ 147-54.1.  Division of publications; duties. — The Secretary of State is authorized to set up a division to be designated as the Division of Publications and to appoint a director thereof who shall be known as the Director of Publications. This Division shall publish the North Carolina Manual, Directory, Index of Local Legislation and such other publications as may be useful to the members and committees of the General Assembly and other officials of the State and of the various counties and cities.
The Division shall also perform all such other duties as may be assigned by the Secretary of State."
Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 5.  This act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of June, 1971.