GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1983 SESSION

CHAPTER 516 
SENATE BILL 289 

AN ACT DESIGNATING THE OFFICE OF STATE PERSONNEL AND THE STATE PERSONNEL COMMISSION AS THE DEFERRAL AGENCY FOR EEOC COMPLAINTS. 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Article 8 of Chapter 126 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read: 
"§ 126-40.  Section 706 deferral agency. – The Office of State Personnel and the State Personnel Commission are designated the official deferral agency under Section 706 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all charges filed on a timely basis with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by any State or local government employee subject to this Chapter. The Office of State Personnel and the State Personnel Commission have no jurisdiction or authority to accept deferral of any charge filed by any employee exempted, in whole or in part, from coverage of this Chapter by G.S. 126-5(b), (c), (d)(2), (d)(3), or (d)(4)." 
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification. 
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of June, 1983.