GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2005

 

 

SESSION LAW 2005-96

HOUSE BILL 664

 

 

AN ACT TO make it UNLAWFUL for any person to falsify, or direct another to falsify, a highway construction inspection report or test report required by the DEPARTMENT of TRANSPORTATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  G.S. 136-13.2 reads as rewritten:

"§ 136-13.2.  Falsifying highway inspection reports.

(a)       Any employee or agent employed by the Department of Transportation or by an engineering or consulting firm engaged by the Department of Transportation, person who knowingly falsifies any inspection report or test report required by the Department of Transportation in connection with the construction of highways, shall be guilty of a Class H felony.

(b)       Any employee, supervisor, or officer of the Department of Transportation person who directs a subordinate under his direct or indirect supervision to falsify an inspection report or test report required by the Department of Transportation in connection with the construction of highways, shall be guilty of a Class H felony.

(c)       Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 786, s. 2, effective May 8, 1979."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2005, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of June, 2005.

 

 

                                                                    s/ Marc Basnight

                                                                         President Pro Tempore of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/ James B. Black

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 9:07 p.m. this 21st day of June, 2005