Title: S.L. 1985-173
Category: Session Law

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1985 SESSION

CHAPTER 173 
HOUSE BILL 72 

AN ACT TO CLARIFY THAT THE LEGISLATIVE REVIEW OF PROPOSALS TO LICENSE NEW OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS INCLUDES COMMISSIONS. 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 120-141(3) is rewritten to read: 
"(3)	'Licensing plan' means (a) a board, commission or other body established to regulate the eligibility of a person to engage in an occupation or profession or (b) the proposed licensing of an occupation or profession by an existing licensing body." 
Sec. 2.  G.S. 120-141 is amended by deleting the word "Chapter" and substituting the word "Article". 
Sec. 3.  Article 18 of Chapter 120 of the General Statutes is amended as follows: 
(1)	by deleting the words "licensing boards" whenever they appear and substituting the words "licensing plans"; 
(2)	by deleting the words "licensing board" whenever they appear and substituting the words "licensing plan"; 
(3)	by deleting the words "occupational licensing board" whenever they appear and substituting the words "licensing plan"; 
(4)	by deleting the words "occupational licensing boards" whenever they appear and substituting the words "licensing plans"; 
(5)	by deleting the words "an occupational or professional licensing board" whenever they appear and substituting the words "a licensing plan"; 
(6)	by deleting the words "occupational and professional boards" whenever they appear and substituting the words "licensing plans"; 
(7)	by deleting the words "occupational and professional licensing board" whenever they appear and substituting the words "licensing plan"; and 
(8)	by deleting the words "Legislative Committee on New Occupational and Professional Licensing Boards" whenever they appear and substituting the words "Legislative Committee on New Licensing Plans". 
Sec. 4.  G.S. 120-143(a) is amended by deleting the period after the first sentence and adding the following: 
"; provided, however, that the Committee, when evaluating the proposed licensing of an occupation or profession by an existing licensing body, shall evaluate only the occupation or profession to be licensed and shall not assess the need for the licensing of any other occupation or profession already regulated by the same licensing body." 
Sec. 5.  This act is effective upon ratification. 
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of May, 1985.

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