GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1991 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 360

SENATE BILL 385

 

AN ACT TO PROTECT THE SECURITY OF OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING EXAMINATIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 93B-8(c) reads as rewritten:

"(c)      Each applicant who takes an examination given by any occupational licensing board, and does not pass such examination, shall have the privilege to review his examination in the presence of the board or a representative of the board. Except as provided in this subsection, an occupational licensing board shall not be required to disclose the contents of any examination or of any questions which have appeared thereon, or which may appear thereon in the future."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 14-401.1 reads as rewritten:

"§ 14-401.1.  Misdemeanor to tamper with examination questions.

Any person who who, without authority of the entity who prepares or administers the examination, purloins, steals, buys, receives, or sells, gives or offers to buy, give, or sell any examination questions or copies thereof of any examination provided and prepared by law before the date of the examination for which they shall have been prepared, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00), imprisonment for not more than six months, or both. misdemeanor."

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of June, 1991.

 

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James C. Gardner

President of the Senate

 

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Daniel Blue, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives