GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION

S.L. 1997-231
HOUSE BILL 933

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE FEES COLLECTED UNDER THE PHARMACY PRACTICE ACT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 90-85.24 reads as rewritten:
"§ 90-85.24.  Fees collectible by Board.
The Board of Pharmacy shall be entitled to charge and collect not more than the following fees: for the examination of an applicant for license as a pharmacist, one hundred sixty dollars ($160.00) plus the cost of the test material; for renewing the license as a pharmacist, one hundred ten dollars ($110.00); for renewing the license of an assistant pharmacist, ten dollars ($10.00); for licenses without examination as provided in G.S. 90-85.20, original, four hundred dollars ($400.00); for original registration of a pharmacy, three hundred fifty dollars ($350.00), and renewal thereof, one hundred seventy-five dollars ($175.00); for annual registration as a dispensing physician under G.S. 90-85.21(b), fifty dollars ($50.00); for annual registration as a dispensing physician assistant under G.S. 90-18.1, fifty dollars ($50.00); for annual registration as a dispensing nurse practitioner under G.S. 90-18.2, fifty dollars ($50.00); for registration of any change in pharmacist personnel as required under G.S. 90-85.21(a), twenty-five dollars ($25.00); for a duplicate of any license, permit, or registration issued by the Board, twenty-five dollars ($25.00); for registration to dispense devices, deliver medical equipment, or both, three hundred dollars ($300.00) per year. All fees shall be paid before any applicant may be admitted to examination or the applicant's name may be placed upon the register of pharmacists or before any license or permit, or any renewal thereof, may be issued by the Board."
Section 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 1997.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of June, 1997.
s/	Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives

s/	James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor

Approved 3:05 p.m. this 27th day of June, 1997