NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 806

SENATE BILL 485

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE REPRESENTATION ON THE OSHA ADVISORY COUNCIL.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 95-134(a), as it appears in Volume 2C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"§ 95-134.  Establishment of Advisory Council. — (a) There is hereby established a State Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health consisting of 11 members, appointed by the commissioner, composed of three representatives from management, three representatives from labor, four representatives of the public sector with knowledge of occupational safety and occupational health professions and one representative of the public sector with knowledge of migrant labor. The commissioner shall designate one of the members from the public sector as chairman and all members of the State Advisory Council shall be selected insofar as possible upon the basis of their experience and competence in the field of occupational safety and health."

Sec. 2.  Nothing herein contained shall be construed to obligate the General Assembly to appropriate additional funds to the Department of Labor to implement the provisions of this act.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

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