GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION
CHAPTER 442
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE FEES FOR PLANT PEST INSPECTION AND CERTIFICATION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 106-420 reads as rewritten:
"§ 106-420. Authority of Board of Agriculture to adopt regulations.
The Board of Agriculture is hereby authorized to adopt
reasonable regulations to implement and carry out the purposes of this Article
as to eradicate, repress and prevent the spread of plant pests (i) within
the State, (ii) from within the State to points outside the State, and (iii)
from outside the State to points within the State. The Board of Agriculture
shall adopt regulations for eradicating such plant pests as it may deem
capable of being economically eradicated, for repressing such as cannot be
economically eradicated, and for preventing their spread within the State.
Regulations may provide for quarantine of areas. It may also adopt reasonable
regulations for preventing the introduction of dangerous plant pests from
without the State, and for governing common carriers in transporting plants,
articles or things liable to harbor such pests into, from and within the State.
The Board is authorized, in order to control plant pests, to adopt regulations
governing the inspection, certification and movement of nursery stock, (i) into
the State from outside the State, (ii) within the State, and (iii) from within
the State to points outside the State. The Board is further authorized to prescribe
and collect a schedule of fees to be collected for its nursery inspection,
nursery dealer certification, and narcissus bulb inspection narcissus
bulb inspection, plant pest inspection, and plant pest certification activities."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 28th day of June, 1991.
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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives