NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 154

HOUSE BILL 54

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 115A, SECTION 4 OF THE NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL STATUTES TO PROVIDE REGULATIONS FOR IN-PLANT TRAINING.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S.  115A-4 as it presently appears in the 1975 Replacement Volume 3A of the North Carolina General Statutes is hereby amended by deleting the third paragraph therefrom.

Sec. 2.  Article 1 of Chapter 115A of the North Carolina General Statutes is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section which shall be numbered 115A-4.1 and which shall read:

"§ 115A-4.1.  Provision of in-plant training. — Community colleges and technical institutes shall assist in the pre-employment and in-service training of employees in industry, business, agriculture, health occupation and governmental agencies. The State Board of Education shall make appropriate regulations including the establishment of maximum hours of instruction which may be offered at State expense in each in-plant training program. No instructor or other employee of a community college or technical institute shall engage in the normal management, supervisory and operational functions of the establishment in which the instruction is offered during the hours in which they are employed for instructional or educational purposes."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 5th day of April, 1977.