NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 222

HOUSE BILL 449

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 3, CHAPTER 119 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 119-16.1 of the General Statutes is rewritten in its entirety as follows:

"§ 119-16.1.  'Kerosene' defined. — The term 'kerosene' wherever used in this Article, except to the extent otherwise provided in G.S. 119-16 shall include all petroleum oil free from water, glue and suspended matter and having flash point not below 115°F., a sulphur content not exceeding two tenths percent (0.20%), and a distillation 'end point' not higher than 572°F. as determined by currently approved A.S.T.M. procedures. The presence or absence of coloring matter shall in no way be determinative of whether a substance is kerosene within the meaning of this section."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of March, 1979.