NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 716
SENATE BILL 551

AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF 1963, DESIGNATED AS S.B. 3 AND RATIFIED FEBRUARY 14, 1963, FOR THE PURPOSE OF CREATING A CRIMINAL OFFENSE FOR A VIOLATION OF THE RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE LEGISLATIVE BUILDING GOVERNING COMMISSION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  The Act of the General Assembly of the Session of 1963, designated as S.B. 3, and entitled: "A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT CREATING A LEGISLATIVE BUILDING GOVERNING COMMISSION", and ratified on February 14, 1963, is hereby amended by adding at the end of Section 3 of the printed bill, in line 17 on page 2 thereof, the following:
"The rules and regulations promulgated by the Legislative Building Governing Commission, as authorized by this Act, shall be posted in conspicuous places in the State Legislative Building and a copy of the same certified by the Legislative Building Governing Commission shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State and in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Wake County, and when so posted and filed shall constitute notice to all persons of the existence of said regulations. Any person, whether on his own behalf or for another, or acting as an agent or representative of any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association, who shall knowingly violate any of the rules or regulations promulgated under the authority of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction or a plea of guilty shall be punished by fine or imprisonment in the discretion of the court or by both such fine and imprisonment. Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association who shall combine, confederate, conspire, aid, abet, solicit, urge, instigate, counsel, advise, encourage or procure another or others to knowingly violate any of the rules and regulations promulgated under the authority of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction or a plea of guilty shall be punished by a fine or imprisonment in the discretion of the court or by both such fine and imprisonment."
Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of June, 1963.