120-33. Duties of enrolling clerk.
(a) All bills passed by the General Assembly shall be enrolled for ratification under the supervision of the enrolling clerk.
(b) Prior to enrolling any bill, the enrolling clerk shall substitute the corresponding Arabic numeral(s) for any date or section number of the General Statutes or of any act of the General Assembly which is written in words. The enrolled bill shall have the word "RATIFIED" following the bill number.
(c) All bills shall be typewritten and carefully proofread before enrollment.
(d) Upon ratification of an act or joint resolution, the enrolling clerk shall present one true ratified copy:
(1) To the Governor of any act except acts not required to be presented to the Governor under Article II, Section 22 of the Constitution of North Carolina; and
(2) To the Secretary of State of:
a. Acts not required to be presented to the Governor under Article II, Section 22 of the Constitution of North Carolina; and
b. Joint resolutions.
In the case of any bill presented to the Governor, the enrolling clerk shall write upon the bill the time and date presented to the Governor.
(d1) The enrolling clerk shall present to the Secretary of State one true ratified copy of:
(1) Any bill which has become law with the approval of the Governor as provided by G.S. 120-29.1(a);
(2) Any bill which has become law without the approval of the Governor as provided by G.S. 120-29.1(b); and
(3) Any bill which has become law notwithstanding the objections of the Governor, as provided by G.S. 120-29.1(c).
(d2) No bill required to be presented to the Governor under Article II, Section 22 of the Constitution of North Carolina shall be so presented until the next business day after the bill was ratified, unless expressly ordered by that house where such bill was ordered enrolled. For the purpose of this section, a business day is a weekday other than one on which there is both a State employee holiday and neither house is in session. No bill required to be presented to the Governor under Article II, Section 22 of the North Carolina Constitution shall be recalled from the Enrolling Clerk or Governor after it has been ratified but before it has been acted upon by the Governor except by joint resolution.
(e) Repealed by Session Laws 1995, c. 20, s. 1.
(f) The enrolling clerk upon completion of duties after each session shall deposit the original bills and resolutions enrolled for ratification with the Secretary of State.
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