GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION
CHAPTER 350
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 105-333(10) reads as rewritten:
"(10) 'Motor freight carrier company' means a
public service company engaged in the business of transporting property
by motor vehicle for hire over the public highways of this State as herein
provided: provided in this subdivision:
a. As to
interstate carrier companies domiciled in North Carolina, this definition
shall include term includes carriers who regularly transport
property by tractor trailer to or from one or more terminals owned or leased by
the carrier outside this State or two or more terminals inside this State. For
purposes of appraisal and allocation only, the definition shall also include
term also includes a North Carolina interstate carrier which that
does not have a terminal outside this State but whose operations outside
the State are sufficient to require the payment of ad valorem taxes on a
portion of the value of the rolling stock of such the carrier to
taxing units in one or more other states.
b. As to
interstate carrier companies domiciled outside this State, this definition
shall include term includes carriers who regularly transport
property by tractor trailer to or from one or more terminals owned or leased by
the carrier inside this State.
c. As to
intrastate carrier companies, this definition shall include term
includes only those carriers which that are engaged in the
transportation of property by tractor trailer to or from two or more terminals
owned or leased by the carrier in this State."
Sec. 2. G.S. 105-333(14) reads as rewritten:
"(14) 'Public service company' means railroad
company, pipeline company, gas company, electric power company, electric
membership corporation, telephone company, telegraph company, bus line company,
motor freight carrier company, airline company, and any other company
performing a public service that is regulated by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, the Federal Power Commission, the Federal Communications
Commission, the Federal Aviation Agency, or the North Carolina Utilities Commission
except Commission, except that the term does not include a water
company, a radio common carrier company as defined in G.S. 62-119(3), a cable
television company, or a radio or television broadcasting company. The
term also includes a motor freight carrier company. (For For
purposes of appraisal under this Article, this definition shall include the
term also includes a pipeline company whether or not it performs a public
service and whether or not it is regulated by one of the regulatory agencies
named in the preceding sentence). this subdivision."
Sec. 3. G.S. 105-130.4(a)(6) reads as rewritten:
"(6) 'Public utility' means
any corporation which that is subject to control of one of
more of the following entities: the North Carolina Utilities Commission
and/or Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the Interstate
Commerce Commission, the Federal Power Commission and Commission,
or the Federal Aviation Agency Agency; and which that
owns or operates for public use any plant, equipment, property, franchise,
or license for the transmission of communications, the transportation of
goods or persons, or the production, storage, transmission, sale, delivery or
furnishing of electricity, water, steam, oil, oil products, or gas. The
term also includes a motor carrier of property whose principal business
activity is transporting property by motor vehicle for hire over the public
highways of this State."
Sec. 4. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 29th day of June, 1995.
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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives