NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1097

SENATE BILL 628

 

 

AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE THE STATUTES REGARDING THE DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The last three paragraphs of G.S. 129-2, definitions of "public buildings", "public buildings and grounds", and "public grounds", are hereby transferred to G.S. 143-336 and inserted before the definition of "State buildings".

Sec. 2.  The powers and duties contained in G.S. 129-4(1), (2), (3), (4), (4a), (5), (6), (7), (8) and (9), as amended by the 1971 General Assembly, are hereby transferred to G.S. 143-340 and designated (15), (16), (17), (18), (19), (20), (21), (22), (23) and (24) respectively.

Sec. 3.  G.S. 129-5(1) through (13) are hereby transferred to G.S. 143-341 as a new subdivision (8) entitled "General Services:".

A new subdivision (9) is hereby inserted in G.S. 143-341 to read as follows:

"(9)      Systems Management. — To establish and operate automated data processing centers to serve two or more State Agencies on a cost-sharing basis, if the Council of State after appropriate investigation deems it advisable from the standpoint of efficiency and economy to establish such centers, and:

a.         to allocate and charge against each State Agency for which services are performed, on a time basis, its proportionate part of the cost of maintenance and operation of said center.

b.         With approval of the Council of State, to require any State agency to be served to transfer to the automated data processing center ownership, custody, and/or control of automated data processing equipment, supplies, and positions no longer required by the served agency as a result of the use of said centers.

c.         To adopt, with approval of the Council of State, reasonable rules and regulations for the efficient and economical operation of said automated data processing centers.

d.         To adopt, with approval of the Council of State, policies, procedures, criteria, standards, plans, and rules and regulations for cooperative use of existing automated data processing equipment and personnel on a cost-reimbursable basis to facilitate more efficient and economic use of automated data processing resources whether located in the Department of Administration, in other State Agencies, or in State- supported institutions.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to prescribe what agency programs to satisfy agency objectives, either existing or in the future, are to be undertaken; nor to remove from the control and administration of the agencies the responsibility for such program efforts whether such efforts are required specifically by statute or administered under the general program authority and responsibilities of the agencies.

e.         To develop and promote training programs to upgrade the capability of technical and managerial personnel in automated data processing functions.

f.          Restrictions. No data of a confidential nature, as defined in the General Statutes, shall be entered into or processed through any cost sharing data processing center, which may be established under this act, until safeguards for their security satisfactory to the agency head and the Council of State have been designed and installed and are fully operational. No part of G.S. 143-341(9) in any way alters or affects the provisions of G.S. 147-58."

Sec. 4.  G.S. 129-6, 129-7, 129-8, 129-9 and 129-12 are hereby transferred to Chapter 143 and designated G.S. 143-343, 143-344, 143-345, 143-345.1 and 143-345.2 respectively.

Sec. 5.  G.S. 129-1, 129-2, 129-3, 129-10 and 129-11 are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.1.  This act shall not apply to the Police Information Network established under Chapter 114 of the General Statutes.

Sec. 6.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of July, 1971.