NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 739
SENATE BILL 552

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 25A OF CHAPTER 126 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES, THE NORTH CAROLINA EGG LAW, SO AS TO REMOVE CERTAIN EXEMPTIONS CONTAINED THEREIN.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 106-245.15 is rewritten to read:
"No person shall market to consumers, institutional consumers or retailers or expose for that purpose any eggs unless there is clearly designated therewith on the container the grade and size or weight class established in accordance with the provisions of this Article and such eggs shall conform to the designated grade and size or weight class (except when sold on contract to a United States Governmental agency) provided, however, a producer marketing eggs of his own production shall be exempt from this section when such marketing occurs on the premises where the eggs are produced, processed, or when ungraded sales do not exceed 30 dozen per week."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 106-245.18 is amended by striking the words "to consumers" appearing in line 2 of paragraph (a) thereof.
Sec. 3.  G.S. 106-245.22(b) is hereby repealed.
Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of May, 1973.