GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION
CHAPTER 189
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 62-50(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d) Any person who
violates any provision of this section, or any regulation of the Utilities
Commission issued thereunder, shall be subject to a civil penalty not to
exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for each violation for each day
that the violation persists, the maximum civil penalty not to exceed five
hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for any continuing violation. continues.
The maximum penalty for each day of a violation and for all the days of a
continuing violation may not exceed the maximum penalties that would apply if
the penalties had been imposed under 49 U.S.C. Appx. § 1679a(a) by the
Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation. Penalties
assessed under this subsection shall be credited to the General Fund as nontax
revenue."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st of June, 1993.
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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives