NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 796

HOUSE BILL 1317

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 62 (PUBLIC UTILITIES) TO PERMIT DISSEMINATION OF CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION FOR PURPOSES OF SCREENING CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT APPLICATIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 62 of the General Statutes is amended by adding the following new Article:

"Article 16.

"Security Provisions.

"§ 62-330.  Screening employment applications. — The Chief Personnel Officer or his designee of any public utility franchised to do business in North Carolina shall be permitted to obtain from the State Bureau of Investigation a confidential copy of criminal history record information for screening an applicant for employment with or an employee of a utility or utility contractor where the employment or job to be performed falls within a class or category of positions certified by the North Carolina Utilities Commission as permitting or requiring access to nuclear power facilities or access to or control over nuclear material.

The State Bureau of Investigation shall charge a reasonable fee to defray the administrative costs of providing criminal history record information for purposes of employment application screening. The State Bureau of Investigation is authorized to retain fees charged pursuant to this section and to expend those fees for the purpose of discharging its duties under this section, provided that all such fees received after March 30, 1980 shall be credited to the General Fund."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of June, 1979.