2005 North Carolina Code - General Statutes § 120-129. Definitions.

Article 17.

Confidentiality of Legislative Communications.

§ 120‑129.  Definitions.

As used in this Article:

(1)       "Document" means all records, papers, letters, maps, books, photographs, films, sound recordings, magnetic or other tapes, electronic data‑processing records, artifacts, or other documentary material regardless of physical form or characteristics.

(1a)     "Legislative commission" means any commission or committee which the Legislative Services Commission is directed or authorized to staff by law or resolution and which it does, in fact, staff.

(2)       "Legislative employee" means employees and officers of the General Assembly, consultants and counsel to members and committees of either house of the General Assembly or of legislative commissions who are paid by State funds, and employees of the Institute of Government; but does not mean legislators and members of the Council of State.

(3)       "Legislator" means a member‑elect, member‑designate, or member of the North Carolina Senate or House of Representatives. (1983, c. 900, s. 1; 1983 (Reg. Sess., 1984), c. 1038, ss. 1‑3.)