NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1125

SENATE BILL 912

 

 

AN ACT TO DELETE THE REQUIREMENT THAT A LICENSED PILOT WHO IS OTHERWISE QUALIFIED MUST SERVE A TWO-YEAR APPRENTICESHIP BEFORE BEING LICENSED AS AN AERIAL PESTICIDE APPLICATOR.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 143-453(a) as the same appears in the 1975 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"(a)       An applicant for a license must present satisfactory evidence to the board concerning his qualifications for a pesticide applicator license. The contractor and each pilot involved in aerial application of pesticides shall be licensed. Those qualifications, in the case of a pilot, shall include at least 100 hours flying experience as a pilot in the field of aerial pesticide application. A pilot lacking 100 hours experience as a pilot in the field of aerial pesticide application may be licensed as an apprentice aerial pesticide applicator pilot provided that all aerial applications of pesticide by such licensed aerial pesticide applicator apprentice is conducted under the direction and supervision of a licensed pesticide applicator pilot."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.