§ 143B‑6.  Principal departments.

In addition to the principal departments enumerated in the Executive Organization Act of 1971, all executive and administrative powers, duties, and functions not including those of the General Assembly and its agencies, the General Court of Justice and the administrative agencies created pursuant to Article IV of the Constitution of North Carolina, and higher education previously vested by law in the several State agencies, are vested in the following principal departments:

(1)        Department of Cultural Resources

(2)        Department of Health and Human Services

(3)        Department of Revenue

(4)        Department of Public Safety

(5)        Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety

(6)        Department of Environment and Natural Resources

(7)        Department of Transportation

(8)        Department of Administration

(9)        Department of Commerce

(10)      Community Colleges System Office

(11)      Division of Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety.  (1973, c. 476, s. 6; c. 620, s. 9; c. 1262, ss. 10, 86; 1975, c. 716, s. 5; c. 879, s. 46; 1977, c. 70, s. 23; c. 198, s. 22; c. 771, s. 4; 1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1130, s. 3; 1989, c. 727, s. 218(122); c. 751, s. 7(19); 1991 (Reg. Sess., 1992), c. 959, s. 38; 1997‑443, ss. 11A.118(a), 11A.119(a); 1999‑84, s. 23; 2000‑137, s. 4(mm); 2011‑145, s. 19.1(g), (h), (l).)