NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 449

SENATE BILL 371

AN ACT TO AMEND THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURE LIMING MATERIALS AND LANDPLASTER ACT, ARTICLE 8A OF CHAPTER 106 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Article 8A of Chapter 106 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section thereto as follows:

"§ 106-92.17. Lime and fertilizer mixtures. - The provisions of this Article shall apply to mixtures of agricultural liming material and fertilizer, except as follows:

(1)        such mixtures shall meet the labeling requirements of G.S. 106-92.5(a) in addition to providing information including, but not limited to, a guaranteed analysis of the fertilizer element or plant nutrient;

(2)        the tonnage fee for such mixtures under G.S. 106-92.8 shall be twenty-five cents (25¢) per ton; and,

(3)        the Board of Agriculture shall establish the allowable deficiency percentage and refund rate for such mixtures under G.S. 106-92.11."

Sec. 2. G.S. 106-92.3 is amended by adding a new subsection (1a) as follows:

"(1a)     'Agricultural liming material and fertilizer mixture' means any agricultural liming material combined with a single fertilizer element or single plant nutrient."

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective July 1, 1981.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of May, 1981.