North Carolina HB 664: Crime to Falsify Highway Inspection Reports.-AB

Bill Text

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2005

SESSION LAW 2005-96
HOUSE BILL 664

AN ACT TO MAKE IT UNLAWFUL FOR ANY PERSON TO FALSIFY, OR
DIRECT ANOTHER TO FALSIFY, A HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION
INSPECTION REPORT OR TEST REPORT REQUIRED BY THE
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1. G.S. 136-13.2 reads as rewritten:
"§ 136-13.2. Falsifying highway inspection reports.
(a) Any employee or agent employed by the Department of Transportation or by
an engineering or consulting firm engaged by the Department of Transportation, person
who knowingly falsifies any inspection report or test report required by the Department
of Transportation in connection with the construction of highways, shall be guilty of a
Class H felony.
(b) Any employee, supervisor, or officer of the Department of Transportation
person who directs a subordinate under his direct or indirect supervision to falsify an
inspection report or test report required by the Department of Transportation in
connection with the construction of highways, shall be guilty of a Class H felony.
(c) Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 786, s. 2, effective May 8, 1979."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2005, and applies to
offenses committed on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16
th day of
June, 2005.

s/ Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate

s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives

s/ Michael F. Easley
Governor

Approved 9:07 p.m. this 21
st day of June, 2005