GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007

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HOUSE DRH10154-LU-105  (4/5)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Short Title:     Manufact. Housing Bd/Alt. Methods/Crim Checks.

(Public)

Sponsors:

Representative Harrison.

Referred to:

 

 

 

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT authorizing the north carolina manufactured housing board to use alternative methods for criminal history record checks of applicants for licensure under the laws regulating manufactured homes.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 143-143.10A(b) reads as rewritten:

"(b)      All applicants for licensure shall consent to a criminal history record check. Refusal to consent to a criminal history record check may constitute grounds for the Board to deny licensure to an applicant. The Board shall ensure that the State and national criminal history of an applicant is checked. TheApplicants shall obtain criminal record reports from one or more reporting services designated by the Board to provide criminal record reports. Each applicant is required to pay the designated service for the cost of the criminal record report. In the alternative, the Board shall be responsible for providingmay provide to the North Carolina Department of Justice the fingerprints of the applicant to be checked, a form signed by the applicant consenting to the criminal record check and the use of fingerprints and other identifying information required by the State or National Repositories of Criminal Histories, and any additional information required by the Department of Justice. The Board shall keep all information obtained pursuant to this section confidential."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.