AN ACT to implement a recommendation of the joint legislative administrative procedure oversight committee to delay the effective date of the locksmith licensing act and to allow the locksmith licensing board to adopt temporary rules.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 3 of S.L. 2001‑369 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 3. G.S. 74F‑5 and G.S. 74F‑6, as enacted in Section 1 of this act, and Section 3 of this act are effective when the act becomes law. The remainder of the act becomes effective  January 1, 2003."
SECTION 2. Notwithstanding G.S. 150B‑21.1(a)(2), the North Carolina Locksmith Licensing Board may adopt temporary rules to implement S.L. 2001‑369 until January 1, 2003.
SECTION 3.  Section 1 of this act becomes effective August 16, 2001.  The remainder of this act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 29th day of July, 2002.

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

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		 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

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		 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2002