NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1967 SESSION

CHAPTER 552
SENATE BILL 135

AN ACT RELATING TO THE USE, POSSESSION, AND SALE OF CERTAIN GLUES AND OTHER SUBSTANCES CONTAINING TOXIC VAPORS CAPABLE OF INDUCING INTOXICATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  As used in this Act the phrase "glue containing a solvent having the property of releasing toxic vapors or fumes" shall mean and include any glue, cement, or other adhesive containing one or more of the following chemical compounds: acetone, an acetate, benzene, toluene, xylene, butyl alcohol, ethyl alcohol, ethylene dichloride, isopropyl alcohol, methyl alcohol, methyl ethyl ketone, pentachlorophenol, or petroleum ether.
Sec. 2.  No person shall, for the purpose of causing a condition of intoxication, inebriation, excitement, stupefaction, or the dulling of his brain or nervous system, intentionally smell or inhale the fumes from any glue containing a solvent having the property of releasing toxic vapors or fumes; provided, that nothing in this Section shall be interpreted as applying to the inhalation of any anesthesia for medical or dental purposes.
Sec. 3.  No person shall, for the purpose of violating Section 2, use, or possess for the purpose of so using, any glue containing a solvent having the property of releasing toxic vapors or fumes.
Sec. 4.  No person shall sell, or offer to sell, to any other person any tube or other container of glue containing a solvent having the property of releasing toxic vapors or fumes, if he has reasonable cause to suspect that the product sold, or offered for sale, will be used for the purpose set forth in Section 2 of this Act.
Sec. 5.  Any person who violates any provision of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Sec. 6.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.
In the general Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of May, 1967.