GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 572

HOUSE BILL 513

 

AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE FILING OF A NOTICE OF APPEAL IN ALL APPEALS TAKEN FROM DECISIONS OR ORDERS OF THE UTILITIES COMMISSION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 62-90(a) is rewritten to read as follows:

"Any party to a proceeding before the Commission may appeal from any final order or decision of the Commission within 30 days after the entry of such final order or decision, or within such time thereafter as may be fixed by the Commission, not to exceed 30 additional days, and by order made within 30 days, if the party aggrieved by such decision or order shall file with the Commission notice of appeal and exceptions which shall set forth specifically the ground or grounds on which the aggrieved party considers said decisions or order to be unlawful, unjust, unreasonable or unwarranted, and including errors alleged to have been committed by the Commission.

All other parties may give notice of cross appeal and set out exceptions which shall set forth specifically the grounds on which the said party considers said decision or order to be unlawful, unjust, unreasonable or unwarranted, and including errors alleged to have been committed by the Commission. Such notice of cross appeal and exceptions shall be filed with the Commission within 20 days after the first notice of appeal and exceptions has been filed, or within such time thereafter as may be fixed by the Commission, not to exceed 20 additional days by order made within 20 days of the first filed notice of appeal and exceptions."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1983.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of June, 1983.