AN ACT to add a licensed soil scientist to the On‑site wastewater contractors and INspectors certification board.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 90A‑73(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Creation and Appointments. – There is created the North Carolina On‑Site Wastewater Contractors and Inspectors Certification Board. The Board shall consist of nine members appointed to three‑year terms as follows:
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(9)	One member appointed by the General Assembly upon recommendation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives who, at the time of appointment, is a soil scientist licensed under Chapter 89F of the General Statutes with experience in soil and site evaluation for on‑site wastewater systems, to a term that expires on 1 July of years that precede by one year those years that are evenly divisible by three."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2021.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of June, 2021.

	s/	 Phil Berger
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

	s/	 Destin Hall
	 Presiding Officer of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Roy Cooper
	 Governor

Approved 3:40 p.m. this 16th day of June, 2021