143-345.20. Definitions.
The following definitions apply in this Article:
(1) Baseline reversion. - The two-year historical average of reversions by a State department, agency, or institution.
(1a) NC-Thinks. - The State Employee Suggestion Program.
(2) Repealed by Session Laws 2001-424, s. 7.2(b), effective July 1, 2001.
(2a) Participating agency. - Any State department, agency, or institution, or any local school administrative unit that employs State employees eligible to participate in NC-Thinks. The term includes the North Carolina Community Colleges System, The University of North Carolina and its constituent institutions, and charter schools. The term does not include federal or local government agencies.
(2b) Recodified as G.S. 143-345.20(1a).
(3) State employee. - Any of the following:
a. A person who is a contributing member of the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System of North Carolina, the Consolidated Judicial Retirement System of North Carolina, or the Optional Program.
b. A person who receives wages from the State as a part-time or temporary worker, but is not otherwise a contributing member of one of the retirement programs listed in sub-subdivision a. of this subdivision.