NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 126
HOUSE BILL 328

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 106-50.10, RELATING TO THE MINIMUM PLANT FOOD CONTENT OF MIXED FERTILIZERS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 106-50.10, as the same appears in the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3A of the General Statutes, and which reads as follows:
"No superphosphate containing less than eighteen percent (18%) available phosphoric acid nor any mixed fertilizer in which the sum of the guarantees for the nitrogen, available phosphoric acid, and soluble or available potash totals less than twenty percent (20%) may be offered for sale, sold, or distributed in this State."
is rewritten in its entirety to read as follows:
"No superphosphate containing less than eighteen percent (18%) available phosphoric acid nor any mixed fertilizer in which the sum of the guarantees for the nitrogen, available phosphoric acid, and soluble or available potash totals less than twenty percent (20%) may be offered for sale, sold, or distributed in this State; provided, however, the minimum plant food requirement contained herein shall not apply to containers of 16 fluid ounces or less when in liquid form nor to containers of 16 ounces or less avoirdupois when in a dry form, but such packages are not exempt from any other requirements of this Article."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of April, 1975.