NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 58
HOUSE BILL 219

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 143-291.1 TO PROVIDE THAT WHEN THE STATE OR ANY OF ITS DEPARTMENTS, INSTITUTIONS, OR AGENCIES APPEALS THE DECISION OF A HEARING COMMISSIONER THAT THE STATE SHALL BEAR THE COST OF THE APPELLEE'S TRANSCRIPT PROVIDED THAT IF THE STATE PREVAILS, THE COST OF THE TRANSCRIPT SHALL BE TAXED AGAINST THE APPELLEE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 143-291.1 is hereby amended by inserting immediately after the first sentence the following sentence:
"When a State department, institution, or agency appeals the decision rendered by the Hearing Commissioner to the Full Commission, the State department, institution or agency shall furnish a copy of the transcript of the hearing to the appellee without cost therefor."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of March, 1971.