GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

SESSION LAW 1998-129

SENATE BILL 1269

AN ACT TO EXTEND BY ONE YEAR THE DATE BY WHICH WELL CONTRACTORS MUST BE CERTIFIED UNDER THE NORTH CAROLINA WELL CONTRACTORS CERTIFICATION ACT AND TO EXTEND THE TIME FOR THE ADOPTION OF RULES BY THE WELL CONTRACTORS CERTIFICATION COMMISSION, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW COMMISSION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 11 of S.L. 1997-358 reads as rewritten:

"Section 11.  Sections 1, 3, 4, and 7 through 11 of this act are effective when they become law.  Section 2 of this act is effective when it becomes law except that G.S. 87-98.4(a)           and G.S. 87-98.12, as enacted by Section 2 of this act, become effective 1 January 1999. 2000.  Section 5 of this act becomes effective 1 July 1997.  Section 6 of this act becomes effective 1 January 1999. 2000."

Section 2.  Notwithstanding G.S. 150B-21.1(a)(2) and 26 NCAC 2C.0102(11), the Well Contractors Certification Commission may adopt temporary rules to implement S.L. 1997-358 until 1 July 1999.

Section 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of August, 1998.

s/   Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

s/   Harold J. Brubaker

Speaker of the House of Representatives

s/   James B. Hunt, Jr.

Governor

Approved 3:42 p.m. this 4th day of September, 1998