GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 502

SENATE BILL 840

 

ACT TO PROVIDE FOR INCREASED INVOLVEMENT IN WATER TESTING AND ANALYSIS BY PRIVATE COMMERCIAL LABORATORIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.   The Department of Human Resources shall meet with representatives of private commercial water laboratories in North Carolina to conduct a study of (1) ways and means by which the State can assure maximum utilization of private enterprise for laboratory services; (2) whether additional safeguards are needed to assure fair and equitable competition between the State Laboratory of Public Health and commercial water laboratories in North Carolina; and (3) whether the certification of private laboratories should be revised to assure higher standards among private laboratories.

Sec. 2.  The Department of Human Resources and representatives of private commercial water laboratories in North Carolina are directed to report their findings, together with any recommended legislation, to the 1988 Session of the General Assembly.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 29th day of June, 1987.