North Carolina § 164-12 - Creation; name.
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§ 164-12. Creation; name.
There is hereby created and established a commission to be known as "The General Statutes Commission". The Commission shall be located within the General Assembly for administrative purposes only. History (1945, c. 157; 2011-97, s. 5.) State Government Reorganization; Later Transfers. - The General Statutes Commission was transferred to the Department of Justice by G.S. 143A-53 , enacted by Session Laws 1971, c. 864. It was subsequently transferred to the General Assembly for administrative purposes only by Session Laws 2011-97, ss. 5 and 11. Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2009-273, s. 1, as amended by Session Laws 2010-152, s. 25.2, provides: "The General Statutes Commission shall study and recommend ways to make the General Statutes and the North Carolina Constitution gender neutral. These may include recommending legislative changes needed to make the General Statutes and the Constitution gender neutral and a process to be authorized by the General Assembly whereby changes that do not change the law can be made administratively by the Attorney General to make the General Statutes gender neutral." 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 The administrative rules of the General Statutes Commission are repealed but are deemed adopted as policies of the General Statutes Commission until it amends or repeals them.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. 5, effective June 1, 2011, added the subsection (a) designation; and added subsection (b). Legal Periodicals. - For article on the North Carolina General Statutes Commission, see 46 N.C.L. Rev. 469 (1968).
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