\nFor purposes of this Article:\n(1) 'Assigned employee' means an employee of a sending agency who is assigned or detailed to a receiving agency as part of the employee's regular duties with the sending agency.\n(2) 'Employee on leave' means an employee on leave of absence without pay from a sending agency who becomes an employee of a receiving agency while on leave from the sending agency.\n(3) 'Receiving agency' means any division, department, agency, instrumentality, authority, or political subdivision of the federal government or of a state or local government which, under this Article, receives an employee of another governmental division, department, agency, instrumentality, authority, or political subdivision of the federal government or of a state or local government.\n(4) 'Sending agency' means any division, department, agency, instrumentality, authority, or political subdivision of the federal government or of a state or local government which, under this Article, sends any employee thereof to another governmental division, department, agency, instrumentality, authority, or political subdivision of the federal government or of a state or local er this Article, sends any employee thereof to another governmental division, department, agency, instrumentality, authority, or political subdivision of the federal government or of a state or local government. (1977, c. 783, s. 1.)
North Carolina Legal Code
§ 126.52
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