GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

 

 

SESSION LAW 2009-87

HOUSE BILL 1108

 

 

AN ACT to clarify licensure requirements for out-of-state weighmasters under the laws regulating public weighmasters.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  G.S. 81A-52 reads as rewritten:

"§ 81A-52.  License.

All public weighmasters shall be licensed. Any person not less than 18 years of age who wishes to be a public weighmaster shall apply to the Department on a form provided by the Department. A person operating as a public weighmaster outside of this State shall include with the person's application for licensure in this State a copy of the most recent weighing device inspection report performed by the person's local or state weights and measures officials within the 12-month period immediately preceding the date of application. The Board may adopt rules for determining the qualifications of the applicant for a license. Public weighmasters shall be licensed for a period of one year beginning the first day of July and ending on the thirtieth day of June, and a fee of nineteen dollars ($19.00) shall be paid for each person licensed at the time of the filing of the application."

SECTION 2.  G.S. 81A-61 reads as rewritten:

"§ 81A-61.  Approval of devices used.

When making a weight determination, a public weighmaster shall use a weighing device that is of a type suitable for the weighing of the product to be weighed and that has been tested and approved for use by the Commissioner or by the public weighmaster's local or state weights and measures officials within a period of 12 monthsthe 12-month period immediately preceding the date of the weighing."

SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2009, and applies to applicants for licensure on or after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 2nd day of June, 2009.

 

 

                                                                    s/  Walter H. Dalton

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/  Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/  Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 4:17 p.m. this 11th day of June, 2009