NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 843

SENATE BILL 355

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS AND LAND SURVEYORS TO CONDUCT OR SPONSOR PROGRAMS OF INSTRUCTION AND TO DISSEMINATE KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION TO ASSIST REGISTERED ENGINEERS AND LAND SURVEYORS BETTER TO SERVE THE PUBLIC AND TO ASSIST PERSONS BETTER TO QUALIFY FOR REGISTRATION TO PRACTICE ENGINEERING AND LAND SURVEYING IN NORTH CAROLINA.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 89-4 is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph at the end of said Section 89-4 which shall read as follows:

"The Board is authorized and empowered to use its funds to establish and conduct instructional programs for persons who are currently registered to practice engineering or land surveying, as well as for persons interested in obtaining adequate instruction or programs of study to qualify them for registration to practice engineering or land surveying. The Board may expend its funds for these purposes and is authorized and empowered not only to conduct, sponsor and arrange for instructional programs, but also to carry out such programs through extension courses or other media, and the Board may enter into plans or agreements with community colleges, institutions of higher learning, both public and private, State and County Boards of Education or with the governing authority of any industrial education center for the purpose of planning, scheduling or arranging such courses, instruction, extension courses or in assisting in obtaining courses of study or programs in the fields of engineering and land surveying. For the purpose of carrying out these objectives, the Board is authorized to make and promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary for such educational programs, instruction, extension services or for entering into plans or contracts with persons or educational and industrial institutions, but may not require attendance of surveyors at any such programs or make any penalty for failure to attend. Provided that this Act shall not apply to Warren County.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of June, 1963.