NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 1304
HOUSE BILL 1868

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 2 OF CHAPTER 106 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES, THE FERTILIZER LAW OF 1947, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT SUITS MAY BE BROUGHT AGAINST THE MANUFACTURER OF FERTILIZER FOR FALSE AND MISLEADING STATEMENTS MADE BY THE MANUFACTURER, OR HIS AGENTS OR REPRESENTATIVES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 106-50.7(e)4, as the same appears in Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is amended by striking the period at the end thereof and adding the following:
"or unless it shall appear to the Commissioner that the manufacturer of the fertilizer in question, or a representative, agent or employee of the manufacturer, has violated any provisions of G.S. 106-50.12."
Sec. 2.  This act shall not affect pending litigation.
Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1974.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of April, 1974.