§ 120‑72.  Definitions.
The following definitions apply in this Article:
(1)	Agency employee. – Defined in G.S. 120‑131.1.
(2)	Commission. – The Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations.
(3)	Commission staff. – A legislative employee whose primary responsibility is to provide professional or administrative services to the Commission.
(4)	Document. – Defined in G.S. 120‑129.
(5)	Legislative employee. – Defined in G.S. 120‑129.
(6)	Local funds. – Any moneys held by a unit of local government or a public authority except moneys deposited in a trust fund.
(7)	Non‑state entity. – A unit of local government, a public authority, or an individual, firm, partnership, association, or corporation, or any other private organization or group acting as a unit.
(8)	Program. – A specific activity or set of activities established or described by law, administrative rule, executive order, policy, or local ordinance.
(9)	Public authority. – Defined in G.S. 143C‑1‑1.
(10)	Public funds. – State funds, local funds, or both. The term does not apply to State funds or local funds received by a non‑State entity that is an individual, a firm, a partnership, an association, a corporation, or any other private organization or group acting as a unit unless the non‑State entity received the funds to (i) conduct a program or (ii) provide a service to a State agency, a unit of local government, or a public authority.
(11)	State agency. – A unit of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of State government, such as a department, institution, division, commission, board, council, community college, or The University of North Carolina.
(12)	State funds. – Defined in G.S. 143C‑1‑1.
(13)	Unit of local government. – Defined in G.S. 143C‑1‑1.  (1975, c. 490; 2023‑134, s. 27.10(b).)