GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION
CHAPTER 442
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 90-41 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(g) Records, papers, and other documents containing information collected or compiled by the Board, or its members or employees, as a result of investigations, inquiries, or interviews conducted in connection with a licensing or disciplinary matter, shall not be considered public records within the meaning of Chapter 132 of the General Statutes; provided, however, that any notice or statement of charges against any licensee, or any notice to any licensee of a hearing in any proceeding, shall be a public record within the meaning of Chapter 132 of the General Statutes, notwithstanding that it may contain information collected and compiled as a result of any investigation, inquiry, or interview; and provided, further, that if any record, paper, or other document containing information collected and compiled by the Board is received and admitted into evidence in any hearing before the Board, it shall then be a public record within the meaning of Chapter 132 of the General Statutes."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 26th day of June, 1989.