North Carolina § 120-36 - 21. Codification of Statutes.

§ 120-36. 21. Codification of Statutes.

The Legislative Services Officer shall assign to staff of the General Assembly the following duties: To supervise the recodification of all the statute law of North Carolina and supervise the keeping of such recodifications current by including therein all laws hereafter enacted by supplements thereto issued periodically, all of which recodifications and supplements shall be appropriately annotated. In order that the laws of North Carolina, as set out in the General Statutes of North Carolina, may be made and kept as simple, as clear, as concise and as complete as possible, and in order that the amount of construction and interpretation of the statutes required of the courts may be reduced to a minimum, to establish and maintain a system of continuous statute research and correction. To that end the staff shall: Make a systematic study of the general statutes of the State, as set out in the General Statutes and as hereafter enacted by the General Assembly, for the purpose of ascertaining what ambiguities, conflicts, duplications and other imperfections of form and expression exist therein and how these defects may be corrected. Consider such suggestions as may be submitted with respect to the existence of such defects and the proper correction thereof. Prepare for submission to the General Assembly from time to time bills to correct such defects in the statutes as its research discloses. History (1939, c. 315, s. 5; 1941, c. 35; 1943, c. 382; 2011-97, s. 1.) Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2011-97, s. 1, effective June 1, 2011, recodified former Article 2 of Chapter 114 , G.S. 114-9 and G.S. 114-9 .1, as Article 7D of Chapter 120 , G.S. 120-36.21 and G.S. 120-36.22. Historical citations and annotations to sections in former sections have been added to corresponding sections in this Article. This section was formerly G.S. 114-9 . It was recodified as G.S. 120-36.21 by Session Laws 2011-97, s. 1, effective June 1, 2011. Session Laws 2011-97, s. 12, provides: "All contractual rights and duties of the State of North Carolina, acting through its Attorney General and the Division of Legislative Drafting and Codification of Statutes of the North Carolina Department of Justice under G.S. 164-10 , shall remain unchanged but shall be executed by the Legislative Services Office. Nothing in this act shall affect any currently existing agreed upon discount for printed materials to be provided by a vendor to the North Carolina Department of Justice." Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2011-97, s. 1, effective June 1, 2011, rewrote the introductory paragraph; deleted subdivision (1); redesignated former subdivisions (2) and (3) as present subdivisions (1) and (2); and in the introductory paragraph in subdivision (2), deleted "it shall also be the duty of the Division of Legislative Drafting and Codification of Statutes" preceding "to establish" in the first sentence, and substituted "staff" for "Division" in the last sentence. Legal Periodicals. - For note on the responsibilities of the Division, see 17 N.C.L. Rev. 376 (1939). For article on recodification of statutes, see 19 N.C.L. Rev. 25 (1941). For an article on statutory easements by necessity or cartways, see 75 N.C.L. Rev. 1943 (1997).