§ 114-19.16. Criminal record checks for the North Carolina State Lottery Commission and its Director.

§ 114‑19.16.  Criminalrecord checks for the North Carolina State Lottery Commission and its Director.

The Department of Justice mayprovide to the North Carolina State Lottery Commission and to its Director fromthe State and National Repositories of Criminal Histories the criminal historyof any prospective employee of the Commission and any potential contractor. TheNorth Carolina State Lottery Commission or its Director shall provide to theDepartment of Justice, along with the request, the fingerprints of theprospective employee of the Commission, or of the potential contractor, a formsigned by the prospective employee of the Commission, or of the potentialcontractor consenting to the criminal record check and use of fingerprints andother identifying information required by the State and National Repositories,and any additional information required by the Department of Justice. Thefingerprints of the prospective employee of the Commission, or potentialcontractor, shall be forwarded to the State Bureau of Investigation for asearch of the State's criminal history record file, and the State Bureau ofInvestigation shall forward a set of fingerprints to the Federal Bureau ofInvestigation for a national criminal history record check. The North CarolinaState Lottery Commission and its Director shall remit any fingerprintinformation retained by the Commission to alcohol law enforcement agentsappointed under Article 5 of Chapter 18B of the General Statutes and shall keepall information obtained pursuant to this section confidential. The Departmentof Justice shall charge a reasonable fee only for conducting the checks of thecriminal history records authorized by this section.  (2005‑344, s. 6; 2005‑276,s. 31.1(w); 2006‑259, s. 8(g); 2006‑264, s. 91(c); 2009‑570,s. 32(e).)