Bill Summary for S 770 (2015-2016)

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May 26 2016

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View NCGA Bill Details2015-2016 Session
Senate Bill 770 (Public) Filed Wednesday, April 27, 2016
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FURTHER REGULATORY RELIEF TO THE AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY.
Intro. by B. Jackson, Brock, Cook.

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Senate committee substitute makes the following changes to the 2nd edition.

Amends GS 106-65.105D to remove assault on an agent acting under their duties under Article 4H (bedding) from those acts that are punishable as a Class 2 misdemeanor. Deletes the provision defining impede, oppose, intimidate, or interfere to include the use of profane and indecent language, or any act or gesture which tends to cast disrespect on an inspector.

Amends GS 90-91 to require that chorionic gonadotropin be administered by injection for veterinary use or in the presence of a licensed veterinarian (was, or upon the order of a licensed veterinarian) in order to be excluded from the definition of anabolic steroid. 

Amends GS 113A-52.01 to define mulch, as it is used in the statute (which exempts specified activities from the Sedimentation Pollution Control Act), to mean substances composed primarily of plant remains or mixtures of such substances.