NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 566

HOUSE BILL 751

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND PART 10 OF ARTICLE 34 OF CHAPTER 106 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO THE FEEDING OF GARBAGE TO SWINE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  The second sentence of G.S. 106-405.2(a) is rewritten as follows:

"Such permits shall be issued for a period of one year and shall be renewable on the date of expiration."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 106-405.7 is amended by adding at the end thereof a subsection to read as follows:

"(c)       Any operator, manager or person in charge of a restaurant, cafe, boarding house, school, hospital, or other public or private place where food is served to persons other than members of the immediate family or non-paying guests of such operator, manager, or person in charge, shall not allow or permit garbage to be removed from the premises thereof unless the person removing said garbage is in possession of a valid garbage feeding permit issued by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, or unless such person removing said garbage is in possession of a document from the County Department of Health wherein such garbage is located stating that the person removing said garbage is authorized to dispose of such garbage in a legal manner or unless such person removing said garbage is an employee of a municipality engaged in the regular collection of garbage for said municipality. The name and address or license number of any motor vehicle of any person removing garbage other than under authorization from the County Department of Health, the North Carolina Department of Agriculture or a municipality, shall be reported by such operator, manager or person in charge, to the State Veterinarian within five days after the first removal of such garbage is made."

Sec. 3.  The enforcement of this act shall be the sole responsibility of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture.

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1971.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of June, 1971.