NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1299

HOUSE BILL 1464

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT HANDICAPPED APPLICANTS FOR EMPLOYMENT WITH THE STATE SHALL HAVE PREFERENCE OVER ABLE-BODIED APPLICANTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 128-15.3, as the same appears in the 1973 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3B of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"It shall be the policy of this State to give positive emphasis to the recruitment, evaluation, and employment of physically handicapped persons in State government. To carry out the provisions of this section, the Office of State Personnel shall develop methods and programs to assist and encourage the departments, institutions, and agencies of State government in carrying out this policy and to provide for appropriate study and review of the employment of handicapped persons."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of April, 1974.