NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 610

HOUSE BILL 937

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE USE OF THE MOST RECENT SAFETY STANDARDS IN THE LIQUIFIED PETROLEUM GASES LAW.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 119-49 as the same appears in the 1974 Replacement to Volume 3B of the General Statutes is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 119-49.  Minimum standards adopted; power of Board of Agriculture to make changes or additions; regulation by political subdivisions. — The standards as set forth in Pamphlet No. 58 of the National Fire Protection Association entitled THE STORAGE AND HANDLING OF LIQUIFIED PETROLEUM GASES dated 1974, and Pamphlet No. 54 of the National Fire Protection Association entitled AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARD, NATIONAL FUEL GAS CODE dated 1974, and the rules and regulations promulgated by the North Carolina State Board of Agriculture are hereby adopted as is set forth herein, as safety standards for the design, construction, location, installation and operation of equipment and facilities used in handling, storing, and distribution of liquified petroleum gas, subject, always, to the power and authority of the North Carolina State Board of Agriculture to adopt, reject, or to add to any provisions set forth in said pamphlets as above entitled after a public hearing held upon 15 days' notice. After adoption by the Board of Agriculture of such provision or provisions as it may consider necessary in furtherance of the purposes of this Article, such provision or provisions shall become a part of this safety code to the same extent as if written in this Article.

Any municipality or political subdivision may adopt and enforce a safety code dealing with the handling of liquified petroleum gas, which code shall conform with the code adopted by the State Board of Agriculture, and the inspection service rendered by such municipality or political subdivision shall conform to the requirements of the inspection service rendered by the State Board of Agriculture in the enforcement of this Article."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1975.