NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 571

HOUSE BILL 462

 

 

AN ACT TO ENFORCE THE REQUIREMENT THAT ADMINISTRATIVE RULES BE FILED WITH THE ADMINISTRATIVE RULES REVIEW COMMITTEE OF THE LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH COMMISSION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 915 of the 1977 Session Laws is amended by inserting two new sections to read as follows:

"Sec. 8.1.  G.S. 150A-60, as it appears in the 1978 Replacement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is amended by:

(a)        deleting the word 'and' following the semicolon in subsection (3);

(b)        deleting the period following the words 'Attorney General' and inserting in lieu thereof the following: '; and'; and

(c)        adding a new subsection to read as follows: '(5) bear a notation by the Director of Research of the General Assembly that the rule has been filed in accordance with Article 6C of Chapter 120 of the General Statutes. This subsection shall not apply to rules adopted by the Industrial Commission or the Utilities Commission.'

Sec. 8.2. Subsection (c) of G.S. 150A-59, as it appears in the 1978 Replacement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is amended by adding a new sentence to read as follows:

'The effectiveness of rules adopted prior to June 29, 1979, shall not be affected by the imposition of the filing requirement with the Director of Research under G.S. 150A-60(5).'"

Sec. 2.  G.S. 120-30.20(b), as contained in Section 1 of Chapter 915 of the 1977 Session Laws, is amended by deleting the words "at the same time filing is" and inserting in lieu thereof the following "prior to the filing".

Sec. 3.  This act is effective on June 29, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of May, 1979.