NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 790

HOUSE BILL 974

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 135-4 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO CREDITABLE SERVICE IN THE RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 135-4, as the same appears in the 1974 Replacement Volume 3B of the General Statutes and in the 1975 Cumulative Supplement Volume 3B of the General Statutes, and with the change as reflected in the 1976 Interim Supplement to the General Statutes of North Carolina, is amended by adding a new subsection "(m)" to read as follows:

"(m)      Wherever the terminology 'out-of-State service', is used in this section, that terminology shall be interpreted to include the United States Public Health Service and time spent in the Merchant Marines while in the United States Naval Reserve."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of June, 1977.