GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
H	2
HOUSE BILL 92*
Committee Substitute Favorable 3/12/01

Short Title:	Increase Nonresident Search Fee.	()	
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February 12, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ALLOW THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL RESOURCES TO INCREASE THE FEE CHARGED NONRESIDENTS FOR SEARCHES OF ARCHIVED PUBLIC RECORDS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 121‑5(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d)	Preservation of Permanently Valuable Records. – Public records certified by the Department of Cultural Resources as being of permanent value shall be preserved in the custody of the agency in which the records are normally kept or of the North Carolina State Archives. Any State, county, municipal, or other public official is hereby authorized and empowered to turn over to the Department of Cultural Resources any State, county, municipal, or other public records no longer in current official use, and the Department of Cultural Resources is authorized in its discretion to accept such records, and having done so shall provide for their administration and preservation in the North Carolina State Archives. When such records have been thus surrendered, photocopies, microfilms, typescripts, or other copies of them shall be made and certified under seal of the Department, upon application of any person, which certification shall have the same force and effect as if made by the official or agency by which the records were transferred to the Department of Cultural Resources; and the Department may charge reasonable fees for these copies. The Department may answer written inquiries for nonresidents of the State and for this service may charge a search and handling fee not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25.00).The receipts from this fee shall be used to defray the cost of providing this service."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective 1 July 2001.