GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2001

 

 

SESSION LAW 2001-285

HOUSE BILL 334

 

 

AN ACT AMENDING THE EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAWS TO EXEMPT FROM THE DEFINITION OF EMPLOYER GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYERS WHO HIRE INTERNS.

 

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  G.S. 96-8(5)p. reads as rewritten:

"(5)      'Employer' means:

p.         With respect to employment on and after January 1, 1978, any state and local governmental employing unit, including the State of North Carolina, a county board of education, a city board of education, the State Board of Education, the Board of Trustees of The University of North Carolina, the board of trustees of other institutions and agencies supported and under the control of the State, any other agency of and within the State by which a teacher or other employee is paid, and any county, incorporated city or town, the light and water board or commission of any incorporated city or town, the board of alcoholic control of any county or incorporated city or town, county and/or city airport authorities, housing authorities created and operated under and by virtue of Chapter 157 of the General Statutes, redevelopment commissions created and operated under and by virtue of Article 22, Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, county and/or city or regional libraries, county and/or city boards of health, district boards of health, any other separate, local governmental entity, jointly owned or operated governmental entities, and the Retirement System. For purposes of this Chapter, any employing unit described in this paragraph is not an employer by reason of hiring an intern.

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SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 3rd day of July, 2001.

 

 

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/ James B. Black

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 9:56 a.m. this 13th day of July, 2001