NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 1145
HOUSE BILL 1432

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 62-50 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO PROVIDE THAT MUNICIPALLY OWNED GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS SHALL BE UNDER THE REGULATION OF THE UTILITIES COMMISSION INSOFAR AS SAFETY REGULATIONS ARE CONCERNED.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Chapter 62, Section 50 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by inserting therein a new subsection (g) to read as follows:
"(g)	For the purposes of this section, 'intrastate natural gas utilities' shall include municipal corporations operating municipally owned gas distribution systems, to the end that said systems shall be subject to the enforcement of gas safety standards by the Commission, provided that this Chapter shall in no other way apply to municipally owned gas distribution systems."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of July, 1971.