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Renewal of school bus driver's certificates—falsified records—applicability of section 20-34.1
The N.C. Department of Transportation (DOT) did not have just cause to terminate from employment a driver education program specialist pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 20-34.1, which criminalizes the act of knowingly entering "false information concerning a drivers license or a special identification card" into official records, because the statute did not apply to the specialist's conduct recertifying several school bus drivers without having conducted ride-along observations of those drivers. A school bus driver's certificate does not qualify as a "drivers license" for purposes of section 20-34.1, since it is a separate driving credential. Therefore, the decision of the Court of Appeals (reversing the final decision of the administrative law judge finding no just cause) was reversed, and the matter was remanded to the lower appellate court for consideration of the DOT's remaining arguments on appeal.
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