NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 680

HOUSE BILL 1004

 

 

AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE SCOPE OF JUDICIAL REVIEW OF AN ADVISORY DECISION OF THE STATE PERSONNEL COMMISSION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 126-37 is amended by adding the following sentence at the end:

"An action brought in superior court by an employee who is dissatisfied with an advisory decision of the State Personnel Commission or with the action taken by the local appointing authority pursuant to the decision shall be heard upon the record and not as a trial de novo."

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification and applies to actions commenced on or after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of June, 1981.