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