93-12.2. Board records are confidential.
Records, papers, and other documents containing information collected or compiled by the Board, its members, or employees, as a result of a complaint, investigation, inquiry, or interview in connection with an application for examination, certification, or registration, or in connection with a certificate holder's professional ethics and conduct, shall not be considered public records within the meaning of Chapter 132 of the General Statutes. Any notice or statement of charges against a certificate holder or applicant, or any notice to a certificate holder or applicant of a hearing to be held by the Board is a public record, even though it may contain information collected and compiled as a result of a complaint, investigation, inquiry, or interview conducted by the Board. If any record, paper, or other document containing information collected and compiled by the Board is admitted into evidence in a hearing held by the Board, it shall then be a public record within the meaning of Chapter 132 of the General Statutes. (1997-157, s. 2.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 93 - Certified Public Accountants
§ 93-1 - Definitions; practice of law.
§ 93-3 - Unlawful use of title "certified public accountant" by individual.
§ 93-4 - Use of title by firm.
§ 93-5 - Use of title by corporation.
§ 93-6 - Practice as accountants permitted; use of misleading titles prohibited.
§ 93-8 - Public practice of accounting by corporations prohibited.
§ 93-9 - Assistants need not be certified.
§ 93-10 - Practice privileges.
§ 93-11 - Not applicable to officers of State, county or municipality.
§ 93-12 - Board of Certified Public Accountant Examiners.
§ 93-12.1 - Effect of new requirements.