NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 461

HOUSE BILL 179

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 44A TO CREATE A LIEN IN FAVOR OF THOSE WHO PROCESS TEXTILE GOODS AND YARNS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 44A-2, as the same appears in the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 2A of the General Statutes, is amended by adding a new section (f) thereto to read as follows:

"(f)       Any person who improves any textile goods in the ordinary course of his business pursuant to an express or implied contract with the owner or legal possessor of such goods shall have a lien upon all goods of such owner or possessor in his possession for improvement. The amount of such lien shall be for the entire unpaid contracted charges owed such person for improvement of said goods including any amount owed for improvement of goods, the possession of which may have been relinquished, and such lien shall have priority over perfected and unperfected security interests. 'Goods' as used herein includes any textile goods, yarns or products of natural or man-made fibers or combination thereof. 'Improve' as used herein shall be construed to include processing, fabricating or treating by throwing, spinning, knitting, dyeing, finishing, fabricating or otherwise."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 3rd day of June, 1975.