GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

SESSION LAW 1999-13

SENATE BILL 560

AN ACT TO CLARIFY THAT MARKETS THAT SELL UNCOOKED CURED COUNTRY HAM OR UNCOOKED CURED SALTED PORK THAT INVOLVES CERTAIN MINIMAL PREPARATION ARE EXEMPT FROM REGULATION UNDER CHAPTER 130A OF THE GENERAL STATUTES WHEN THAT MINIMAL PREPARATION IS THE ONLY ACTIVITY THAT WOULD SUBJECT THESE MARKETS TO SUCH REGULATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 130A-250 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:

"§ 130A-250.  Exemptions.

The following shall be exempt from this Part:

...

(10) Markets that sell uncooked cured country ham or uncooked cured salted pork and that engage in minimal preparation such as slicing, weighing, or wrapping the ham or pork, when this minimal preparation is the only activity that would otherwise subject these markets to regulation under this Part."

Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to establishments that are in operation on or after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 31st day of March, 1999.

s/   Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

s/   James B. Black

Speaker of the House of Representatives

s/   James B. Hunt, Jr.

Governor

Approved 6:20 p.m. this 31st day of March, 1999