NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 765

HOUSE BILL 983

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 62 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO PROVIDE PENALTIES FOR FILING OR GIVING FALSE INFORMATION TO THE UTILITIES COMMISSION OR WITHHOLDING INFORMATION FROM THE UTILITIES COMMISSION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Chapter 62 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new section at the end thereof to read as follows:

"G.S. 62-326.  Furnishing False Information to the Commission; Withholding Information from the Commission. (a) Every person, firm or corporation operating under the jurisdiction of the Utilities Commission or who is required by law to file reports with the Commission who shall knowingly or wilfully file or give false information to the Utilities Commission in any report, reply, response, or other statement or document furnished to the Commission shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined or imprisoned in the discretion of the court."

"(b)      Every person, firm, or corporation operating under the jurisdiction of the Utilities Commission or who is required by law to file reports with the Commission who shall wilfully withhold clearly specified and reasonably obtainable information from the Commission in any report, response, reply or statement filed with the Commission in the performance of the duties of the Commission or who shall fail or refuse to file any report, response, reply or statement required by the Commission in the performance of the duties of the Commission shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined or imprisoned in the discretion of the court."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after September 15, 1969.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of June, 1969.