NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 384
HOUSE BILL 375

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 66-68 TO RELIEVE CERTAIN PARTNERSHIPS ENGAGED IN THE PRACTICE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY FROM THE REQUIREMENT OF FILING CERTIFICATES OF ASSUMED NAME.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 66-68 is hereby amended by inserting the words "Unless exempt under subsection (e) hereof," and changing the capital "B" in the word "Before" to lower case at the beginning of subsection (a) thereof and by adding a new subsection (e) at the end thereof which shall read as follows:
"(e)	Any partnership engaged in the practice of certified public accountancy in this State shall be exempt from the requirements of this Section if it shall file annually with the North Carolina State Board of Certified Public Accountant Examiners, or at such intervals as shall be designated from time to time by such board, a listing of the names and addresses of its partners (including both residents and nonresidents of this State); and such listing shall be open to public inspection during normal working hours."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of May, 1977.