GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION

S.L. 1997-8
HOUSE BILL 149

AN ACT TO REQUIRE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO ACCOUNT FOR 911 SURCHARGES IN THEIR ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 62A-7 reads as rewritten:
"§ 62A-7.  Emergency Telephone System Fund.
The fiscal officer to whom 911 charges are remitted under G.S. 62A-6 shall deposit the charges in a special revenue fund pursuant to G.S. 159-26(b)(2).  The Fund shall be known as the Emergency Telephone System Fund.  The fiscal officer may invest money in the Fund in the same manner that other money of the local government may be invested.  The fiscal officer shall deposit any income earned from such an investment in the Emergency Telephone System Fund."
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1997.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 20th day of March, 1997.

s/	Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives

s/	James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor

Approved 2:30 p.m. this 26th day of March, 1997