§ 164-10. Supplements to the General Statutes; rearrangement of laws, and correction of errors. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 164‑10. Supplements to the General Statutes; rearrangement of laws, and correction oferrors.

The Division of Legislative Drafting and Codification of Statutes ofthe Department of Justice, under the direction and supervision of the AttorneyGeneral, shall have the following duties and powers with regard to thesupplements to the General Statutes:

(1)        Within six months after the adjournment of each GeneralAssembly, or as soon thereafter as possible, the Division shall cause to bepublished under its supervision, cumulative pocket supplements to the GeneralStatutes, and any replacement or recompiled volumes thereof, which shallcontain an accurate transcription of all laws of a general and permanent natureenacted by the General Assembly, the material contained in the next precedingpocket and interim supplements, complete and accurate annotations to thestatutes, appendix and other material accumulated since the publication of thenext preceding pocket and interim supplements, and a cumulative index of saidmaterial.

(2)        Periodically, every six months after the publication andissuance of a cumulative pocket supplement following a session of the GeneralAssembly, or as soon thereafter as possible, except when the publication of thecumulative pocket supplement makes it unnecessary, the Division shall cause tobe published an interim supplement containing all pertinent annotations andother material found by the Division to be necessary and proper, accumulatingsince the publication of the said cumulative pocket supplement or the lastinterim supplement.

(3)        In the preparation of the general and permanent lawsenacted  by the General Assembly the Division is hereby authorized:

a.         To rearrange the order of chapters, subchapters, articles,sections and other divisions or subdivisions;

b.         To provide titles for any such divisions or subdivisions andsection titles or catchlines when they are not provided by such laws;

c.         To adopt a uniform system of lettering or numbering sectionsand the various subdivisions thereof and to reletter or renumber sections andsection subdivisions in accordance with such uniform system;

d.         To rearrange definitions in alphabetical order;

e.         To rearrange lists of counties in alphabetical order; and

f.          To make such other changes in arrangement and form that donot change the law as may be found by the Division necessary for an accurate,clear and orderly codification of such general and permanent laws. (1945, c. 863; 1947, c. 150; 1951, c. 1149, s. 1;1957, c. 1013.)