GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

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HOUSE BILL 565
Committee Substitute Favorable 4/29/97
Committee Substitute #2 Favorable 7/14/97

Short Title:  Wake Omnibus Act.	(Local)

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March 20, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO CHANGE SEVERAL LAWS AFFECTING WAKE COUNTY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. Chapter 279 of the 1989 Session Laws of North Carolina is repealed.
Section 2. G.S. 62A-8 reads as rewritten:
"§ 62A-8.  Payments from Fund.
(a)	Money from the Emergency Telephone System Fund shall be used only to pay for:
(1)	The lease, purchase, or maintenance of emergency telephone equipment, including necessary computer hardware, software and database provisioning, addressing, and nonrecurring costs of establishing a 911 system, and
(2)	The rates associated with the service supplier's 911 service and other service supplier recurring charges.
(3)	The purchase of mobile or portable communications equipment.
(b)	The following expenses are not eligible for payment from the Fund:  the lease or purchase of real estate, cosmetic remodeling of emergency dispatch centers, hiring, training, and compensating dispatchers,  and the purchase of ambulances, fire engines, or other emergency vehicles.
(c)	A local government may contract with a service supplier for any term negotiated by the service supplier and the local government and may make payments from the Emergency Telephone System Fund to provide any payments required by the contract."
Section 3. G.S.90-95.3(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	When any person is convicted of an offense under this Article, the court may order him to make restitution in the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) to the State of North Carolina or to a unit of local government for the expense of analyzing any controlled substance possessed by him or his agent as part of an investigation leading to his conviction.  Any funds received under this subsection shall be deposited in the General Fund, or with a unit of local government if it provided the controlled substance analysis."
Section 4. Section 4 of Chapter 441 of the 1995 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.  "
Section 5. This act applies only to Wake County.
Section 6. Any process served pursuant to Chapter 441 of the 1995 Session Laws from July 1, 1997, until the date this act becomes law is validated by this act.
Section 7. Section 4 of this act is effective retroactively from July 1, 1997.  The remaining sections of this act become effective when they become law.