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 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  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(c)	Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 786, s. 2, effective May 8, 1979."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 16th 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 21st day of June, 2005