GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 846

HOUSE BILL 1745

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PESTICIDE BOARD TO CHARGE A FEE OF UP TO TEN DOLLARS TO MAKE THE CERTIFICATION AND RECERTIFICATION PROGRAM SELF-FUNDED OUT OF RECEIPTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 143-440(b) reads as rewritten:

"(b)      The Board may include in any such restricted-use regulation the time and conditions of sale, distribution, or use of such restricted-use pesticides, may prohibit the use of any restricted-use pesticide for designated purposes or at designated times; may require the purchaser or user to certify that restricted-use pesticides will be used only as labeled or as further restricted by regulation, regulation; may require the certification and recertification of private applicators, and charge a fee of up to ten dollars ($10.00), with the fee set at a level to make the certification/recertification program self-supporting, and, after opportunity for a hearing, may suspend, revoke or modify the certification for violation of any provision of this Article, or any rule or regulation adopted thereunder; and may, if it deems it necessary to carry out the provisions of this Part, require that any or all restricted-use pesticides shall be purchased, possessed, or used only under permit of the Board and under its direct supervision in certain areas and/or under certain conditions or in certain quantities or concentrations except that any person licensed to sell such pesticides may purchase and possess such pesticides without a permit.  The Board may require all persons issued such permits to maintain records as to the use of the restricted-use pesticides.  The Board may authorize the use of restricted-use pesticides by persons licensed under the North Carolina Structural Pest Control Act without a permit."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective September 1, 1987.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 14th day of August, 1987.