NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 843

SENATE BILL 756

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 5 OF CHAPTER 87 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO REFRIGERATION CONTRACTORS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Amend G.S. 87-58(e) by repealing and deleting same in its entirety.

Sec. 2.  G.S. 87-58(f) is rewritten to read as follows:

"(f)       Licenses granted without an examination - persons who had an established place of business prior to July 1, 1979, and who produce satisfactory evidence that they are engaged in the refrigeration business as herein defined in any city, town or other area in which Article 5 of Chapter 87 of the General Statutes did not previously apply shall be granted a certificate of license, without examination, upon application to the board and payment of the license fee, provided such completed applications shall be made prior to June 30, 1981."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 87-64 (first paragraph) is rewritten as follows:

"Each applicant for a license by examination shall pay to the Board of Refrigeration Examiners a nonrefundable examination fee in an amount not to exceed the sum of forty dollars ($40.00). In the event the applicant successfully passes said examination, the examination fee so paid shall be applied to the license fee required of licensees for the current year in which the examination was taken and passed."

Sec. 4.  G.S. 87-64 is amended by striking out the words "of thirty dollars ($30.00)" in line 7 of the second paragraph and substituting in lieu thereof the words "in an amount not to exceed forty dollars ($40.00)" and further amending said second paragraph by striking out in line 12 the words "of thirty-five dollars ($35.00)" and substituting in lieu thereof the words "not to exceed forty-five dollars ($45.00)."

Sec. 5.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.