NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 756

SENATE BILL 744

AN ACT AUTHORIZING LOCAL AND DISTRICT HEALTH DEPARTMENTS TO ENTER INTO AGREEMENTS WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE FOR SANITARY INSPECTION OF MEAT PACKAGING AND SLAUGHTERING ESTABLISHMENTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Chapter 130 of the General Statutes is amended by inserting between G.S. 130-17 and G.S. 130-18 a new section to read as follows:

"§ 130-17.1.  County health departments and district health departments shall have authority to enter into written agreements with the North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture so as to provide that the duty and responsibility of inspecting those establishments listed in G.S. 106-549.22 shall be exercised exclusively by authorized representatives of the Commissioner of Agriculture. Such agreements shall be for such periods of time as the parties may determine."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of May, 1973.