NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 535

SENATE BILL 516

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 114 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO AUTHORIZE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NORTH CAROLINA TO PROVIDE REPRESENTATION FOR THE CONSUMING PUBLIC'S INTEREST BEFORE CERTAIN REGULATORY AGENCIES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 114-2, as the same appears in the 1967 Supplement to the 1966 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding a new subsection, to be designated (8), as follows:

"(8)      (a)        To intervene, when he deems it to be advisable in the public interest, in proceedings before any Courts, regulatory officers, agencies and bodies, both State and Federal, in a representative capacity for and on behalf of the using and consuming public of this State. He shall also have the authority to institute and originate proceedings before such Courts, officers, agencies or bodies and shall have authority to appear before agencies on behalf of the State and its agencies and citizens in all matters affecting the public interest.

(b)        Upon the institution of any proceeding before any State agency by application, petition or other pleading, formal or informal, the outcome of which will affect a substantial number of residents of North Carolina, such agency or agencies shall furnish the Attorney General with copies of all such applications, petitions and pleadings so filed, and, when the Attorney General deems it advisable in the public interest to intervene in such proceedings, he is authorized to file responsive pleadings and to appear before such agency either in a representative capacity in behalf of the using and consuming public of this State or in behalf of the State of any of its agencies.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of May, 1969.