GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 638

SENATE BILL 125

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT FALSE INFORMATION IN STATE EMPLOYEES' FILES SHALL BE DESTROYED.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 126-25 is amended by adding at the end a new sentence to read:  "When a department, division, bureau, commission, or other agency agrees or is ordered by the State Personnel Commission or by the General Court of Justice of this State to remove inaccurate or misleading material from an employee's file, which information was placed in the file by the supervisor or other agent of management, it shall destroy the original and all copies of the material removed and may not retain any inaccurate or misleading information derived from the material removed."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1985.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of July, 1985.