North Carolina § 120-36 - 22. Revisor of Statutes.
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§ 120-36. 22. Revisor of Statutes.
The member of the staff of the General Assembly who is assigned to perform the duties prescribed by G.S. 120-36.21(2) shall be known as the Revisor of Statutes. History (1947, c. 114, s. 1; 1957, c. 541, s. 10; 1967, c. 260, s. 2; 2011-97, s. 1.) Editor's Note. - This section was formerly G.S. 114-9.1. It was recodified as G.S. 120-36.22 by Session Laws 2011-97, s. 1, effective June 1, 2011. Session Laws 2011-97, s. 11, provides: "The statutory authority, powers, duties, functions, records, personnel, property, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds of the General Statutes Commission are transferred from the Department of Justice to the General Assembly, with all of the elements of a Type II transfer as defined by G.S. 143A-6 . The administrative rules of the General Statutes Commission are repealed but are deemed adopted as policies of the General Statutes Commission until it amends or repeals them. The Revisor of Statutes shall notify the Codifier of Rules of the repeal, and the Codifier of Rules may enter the repeal in the Administrative Code." Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2011-97, s. 1, effective June 1, 2011, substituted "General Assembly" for "Attorney General" and "G.S. 120-36.21(2)" for "G.S. 114-9(3)"; and deleted "and he shall be subject to all the provisions of Chapter 126 of the General Statutes relating to the State Personnel System" from the end. Legal Periodicals. - For comment on this section, see 25 N.C.L. Rev. 459 (1947). For an article on statutory easements by necessity or cartways, see 75 N.C.L. Rev. 1943 (1997).
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Section 120-36 ("22. Revisor of Statutes.") is part of the North Carolina General Statutes, the codified statutory law of North Carolina. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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