NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 821

SENATE BILL 704

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION, OFFICE OF PERSONNEL, TO ESTABLISH THE PERSONNEL CLASSIFICATION OF PARALEGAL.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Department of Administration, Office of State Personnel, is hereby authorized and directed to establish the personnel classification of paralegal with such duties and responsibilities as may be assigned to it. For purposes of this act, a paralegal shall be defined as a person who has received formal classroom instruction as a research assistant or lawyer's assistant or a law student in a law school approved by the Council of the North Carolina State Bar and is trained to assume responsibilities as an integral member of a legal staff.

Any person employed as a paralegal pursuant to this act shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 126 of the General Statutes relating to the State Personnel System.

Sec 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1977.

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