NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 770

SENATE BILL 223

 

 

AN ACT TO REQUIRE LICENSING OF THOSE WHO ENGAGE IN THE BUSINESS OF WARM AIR HEATING REQUIRING DUCT DISTRIBUTION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 87-21 (a) (4) is rewritten to read as follows:

"(4)      The phrase 'heating, group number three' shall be deemed and held to be a direct heating system of a building which produces heat to raise the temperature of the space within the building for the purpose of comfort in which electric heating elements or products of combustion exchange heat either directly with the building supply air or indirectly through a heat exchanger and using an air distribution system of ducts."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 87-21 (a) is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following subdivisions:

"(7)      The word 'heating' shall be deemed and held to mean heating group number one, heating group number two, heating group number three, or any combination thereof.

"(8)      The obtaining of a license, as required by this Article, shall not of itself authorize the practice of another profession or trade for which a State qualification license is required."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 87-21 (a) (5) as the same appears in 1965 Replacement Volume 2C of the General Statutes is hereby amended by inserting after the word "two" in line 3, the following: "or heating group number three,".

Sec. 4.  G.S. 87-21 (b) as the same appears in 1965 Replacement Volume 2C of the General Statutes is hereby amended by:

(1) Inserting after the word "two", in line 9, the following: "or heating group number three,".

(2)        Inserting after the word "two", in line 15 the following: "or heating group number three,".

(3)        Inserting after the word "two", in line 17, the following: "or heating group number three,".

Sec. 5.  G.S. 87-21 is hereby amended by adding a new subsection after subsection (e) to read as follows:

"(f)       Any person who produces satisfactory evidence on application forms to be provided by said Board, that he resided in the State of North Carolina as of the date of ratification of this Act; that he is engaged in the business of heating group number three; and that he has paid the current required State revenue tax, shall be granted a license without examination, to conduct the business of heating group number three, as denned herein, upon completion of an application approved by said Board and payment of the annual license fee; provided however that such application shall have been submitted to said Board on or before one year after July 1, 1967."

Sec. 6.  G.S. 87-21 (d) is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"(d)      License Granted Without Examination. Persons who were engaged in business as defined in this Act, in cities or towns which attained a population of more than 3500, as recorded by the last decennial United States census, and who had paid the required State revenue tax within the census year in which the municipality attained a population of more than 3500, shall be granted a certificate of license in the classification in which they are qualified, without examination, upon documented proof as required by the Board, within 12 months after publication of the last official United States census, and payment of the annual license fee."

Sec. 7.  G.S. 87-26 is hereby amended by adding a new subsection after subsection (d) to read as follows:

"(e)       It shall be necessary that persons licensed in accordance with the provisions of this Section shall exercise general supervision over contracts to completion."

Sec. 8.  If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof, to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the Act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this Act are declared to be severable.

Sec. 9.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 10.  This Act shall be effective on and after July 1, 1967.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of June, 1967.