NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 743

HOUSE BILL 739

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 97-83 OF THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION CONCERNING INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION HEARINGS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 97-83 is hereby amended by adding at the end of the first paragraph of such section the following:

"The county commissioners of each of the counties shall provide a suitable place for the Industrial Commission to conduct hearings in the county seat of such county so long as the provision of such a suitable place does not interfere with the normal use of county facilities."

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 27th day of June, 1977.