26 NCAC 02C .0302         SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION SCHEDULE

(a)  Submissions for publication in the Register shall be received in OAH by the closing date for the issue as determined under Paragraph (b) of this Rule.

(b)  OAH shall publish the Register on the first and fifteenth of each month if the first or fifteenth of the month is not a Saturday, Sunday, or State holiday for employees mandated by the State Personnel Commission.  If the first or fifteenth of any month is a Saturday, Sunday, or a holiday for State employees, OAH shall publish the Register on the next State business day.  The last day for filing for any issue of the Register shall be 15 days before the issue date excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays for State employees.  In computing the time prescribed or allowed by this Rule, the day of publication of the Register shall not be included.  The last day of the period so computed shall be included, unless it is a Saturday, Sunday, or State holiday, in which event the period shall run until the preceding day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or State holiday.  OAH shall publish in each issue of the Register a table of publication deadlines and schedules for at least the next 12 issues.  This table is published as a public service and the computation of time periods are not to be deemed binding or controlling.

History Note:        Authority G.S. 150B‑21.17;

Temporary Adoption Eff. November 1, 1995;

Eff. April 1, 1996;

Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. July 23, 2016.