NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 631

HOUSE BILL 1180

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 385 OF THE PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS OF 1921, RELATING TO PENSIONS FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS IN NEW HANOVER COUNTY, AS AMENDED.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Chapter 385 of the Public-Local Laws of 1921, as amended, is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph to Section 3(c), to read as follows:

"For purposes of meeting the requirement of 20 years of service for benefits under Sections 2 and 3, both continuous service and periods of broken service shall be recognized; provided that (1) any terminated employee of the New Hanover County School System, who was a member under the act and who had not completed 20 years of continuous or broken service as of his date of termination, shall forfeit all rights to complete said service requirement and to be reinstated as a member thereof unless such employee returned to the employ of the New Hanover County School System prior to August 6, 1974, and he or she is continuously employed thereafter until completion of the 20 years of service required for entitlement to benefits under the act; and (2) that any employee terminated after August 6, 1974, shall cease to be a member under the act and shall not be entitled to any benefit thereunder unless he or she has completed 20 years of service as of his date of termination."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1975.