GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1983 SESSION
CHAPTER 111
AN ACT TO AMEND THE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES LAW CONCERNING SCALE TECHNICIANS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 81A-70 is rewritten as follows:
"Purpose of Article. The purpose of this Article shall be to protect the owners and users of scales and weighing devices in their needs for scale repair and service, and to provide for scale technician registration."
Sec. 2. G.S. 81A-71 is amended by deleting subdivisions (2), (3), and (4) thereof, and by renumbering subdivision (5) as subdivision (2). And further by adding a new subdivision (3) as follows:
"(3) Obtained from the Department an annual certification of the standards of weight which will be used by the scale technician."
Sec. 3. G.S. 81A-72 is amended in the third line thereof by deleting the words "and of bond" between the word "application" and the word "and".
Sec. 4. G.S. 81A-73 is amended in the last sentence thereof by deleting the following phrase between the word "agent" and the word "and":
"if service is upon a scale or weighing device which has been rejected or condemned by an authorized agent,".
Sec. 5. G.S. 81A-74 is repealed.
Sec. 6. G.S. 81A-80 is rewritten as follows:
"(a) The Commissioner may suspend or revoke the registration of any scale technician who violates any provisions of this Article or regulations adopted thereunder or who shall fail to issue a service certificate or who shall issue a service certificate bearing false statements regarding service rendered.
(b) Any person who violates any provision of this Article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500,00) or imprisoned for not more than three months or be fined and imprisoned."
Sec. 7. This act shall become effective July 1, 1983.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of March, 1983.