GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 144

SENATE BILL 162

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT WITH RESPECT TO COUNTY AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICE EMPLOYEES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 97-2(2) is amended by deleting the fourth paragraph and substituting the following:

"All county agricultural extension service employees who do not receive official federal appointments as employees of the United States Department of Agriculture and who are field faculty members with professional rank as designated in the memorandum of understanding between the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, North Carolina State University, A & T State University and the Boards of County Commissioners shall be deemed to be employees of the State of North Carolina. All other county agricultural extension service employees paid from State or county funds shall be deemed to be employees of the county Board of Commissioners in the county in which the employee is employed for purposes of workers' compensation."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of May, 1985.