NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 81

SENATE BILL 340

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 106-568 BY ADDING THERETO A SECTION 106-568.34 TO AUTHORIZE, AS NEEDED, A SHIFT FROM A PER-ACRE UNIT FOR TOBACCO ASSESSMENT TO A CORRESPONDING POUNDAGE UNIT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Article 50-C "Promotion of Sale and Use of Tobacco" of Chapter 106 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is amended by adding at the end of said Article a new section to read as follows:

"§ 106-568.34.  Alternate method for levy of assessment. — At any time when it may be found by the Board of Directors of Tobacco Associates that it is not reasonably feasible to base the authorization of an assessment or the making of an assessment or the collection of an assessment on a 'per-acre' unit, then the Board of Directors of Tobacco Associates, by an affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of its members (which vote shall include the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of such Board members who were elected by North Carolina farm organizations), may use a reasonably corresponding 'tobacco poundage' unit as the basis for such authorization or making or collecting an assessment; provided, that no assessment shall exceed five cents (5˘) per 100 pounds of the effective farm marketing quota of a member."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of March, 1973.