NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 823

HOUSE BILL 56

 

 

AN ACT CONCERNING EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY BY STATE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 126 of the General Statutes is hereby amended to add the following new article to be numbered Article 6 and to add the following new section to be numbered G.S. 126-16 which shall read as follows:

"Article 6.

"Equal Employment Opportunity.

"§ 126-16.  Equal employment opportunity by State Departments and Agencies and local political subdivisions. — All State departments and agencies and all local political subdivisions of North Carolina shall give equal opportunity for employment, without regard to race, religion, color, creed, national origin or sex, to all persons otherwise qualified."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of July, 1971.