{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/ncdcr/iiif/597041be-99b2-4084-8eae-ce9f4ca0543b/manifest","label":"Water_Well_Contractor_Examiner","metadata":[{"label":"Title","value":"State Agency Finding Aid: Board of Water Well Contractor Examiners, 1958-1980"},{"label":"MARS ID","value":"74"},{"label":"Digital Collections","value":["Legacy Finding Aids Collection"]},{"label":"Identifier","value":"Water_Well_Contractor_Examiner"},{"label":"Digital Format","value":["application/pdf"]},{"label":"Hosted By","value":["State Archives of North Carolina"]},{"label":"Metadata Creator","value":["Cusick, Aaron"]},{"label":"Type","value":["Text"]},{"label":"Notes Public","value":"If you have questions about this collection, please contact the State Archives of North Carolina at archives@ncdcr.gov."},{"label":"Source","value":"Board of Water Well Contractor Examiners Records. State Archives of North Carolina"},{"label":"Language","value":["English"]},{"label":"Description","value":"The brief and ineffectual history of state licensure of water well contractors dates from 1961 with the creation of the State Board of Water Well Contractor Examiners.  The board consisted of seven members  appointed by the governor:  four contractors (who, after the initial appointees, had to be licensed), one employee each of the Department of Water Resources and the State Board of Health, and one private  citizen to represent the interests of the public.  After initial  staggered terms members served for three years.  The board was authorized to adopt necessary rules and regulations and an official seal.  Members were empowered to administer oaths to take testimony. Under the enabling legislation, no contractor could drill a well without a license, nor operate a drilling rig without a permit.  To qualify for a license an applicant had to be at least twenty-one years old, a U.S. citizen, of good character, and able to pass the board's examination.  For the first six months of the board's existence, qualified practitioners could simply pay the required fee and receive a license.  Certificates expired at the end of each January and could be renewed without examination.  The board could refuse to issue or renew a license and could suspend or revoke one on several grounds:  failure to qualify, misrepresentation, violation of board regulations or applicable state laws, professional incompetence, or conviction of a crime involving fraud.  Violation of any portion of the law was a misdemeanor.   Unfortunately, an inherent weakness of the statute was obvious from its passage.  Seventy-seven counties were exempted from its provisions; contractors who resided in an exempted county could drill a well in any county without a license. Even after extension by amendments into eight more counties by 1967, contractors in more than two-thirds of the state were not subject to licensure.  The passage of the North Carolina Well Construction Act in 1967  further damaged the viability of the board of examiners.  This statute authorized the Board of Water Resources (after 1973 the Environmental Management Commission) to adopt rules and regulations governing the location, construction, repair, and abandonment of wells, and required the submission of a certified report to the board by anyone constructing  or abandoning a well.  The apparent duplication of governmental  regulation did not long escape the attention of the legislature which, in 1977, included the State Board of Water Well Contractor Examiners among the many regulatory agencies to be studied by the Governmental Evaluation Commission, also known as the Sunset Commission.  After review, the  commission concluded that the enactment of the Well Construction Act and subsequent adoption of specific and comprehensive standards for proper  well construction by the Environmental Management Commission provided better protection to the environment and the public than did the  licensing board.  Citing the ineffectiveness of a statute that did not apply in sixty-nine counties, the commission declared the board of examiners \"an unnecessary complication of government\" and allowed it to expire, effective 1 July 1977, with one year to wind up its business.  REFERENCES:  S.L., 1961, c. 997.  S.L., 1967, c. 1157.  S.L., 1973, c. 476, s. 128; c. 1262.  S.L., 1977, c. 712.  G.S. 87-65 through 87-96 [1993].  North Carolina Governmental Evaluation Commission.  GOVERNMENTAL    EVALUATION COMMISSION REPORT ON NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF WATER WELL   CONTRACTOR EXAMINERS.  Raleigh, 1979."},{"label":"Digital Characteristics","value":"4 pages"},{"label":"Format","value":["Finding aids"]},{"label":"Rights","value":"This item is provided courtesy of the State Archives of North Carolina and is a public record according to G.S.132."},{"label":"Source Collections","value":["Board of Water Well Contractor Examiners Records. 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