Senate committee substitute makes the following changes to 1st edition. Rewrites GS 91A-3 to add cash as a new definition, delete cash converter store as a definition, and redefine cash converter as persons engaged in the business of purchasing goods from the public for cash at a permanently located retail store who hold themselves out to the public as being engaged in such business. Specifically exempts from the definition of cash converter the following: (1) pawnbrokers; (2) persons who purchase goods directly from manufacturers or wholesalers; (3) precious metal dealers to the extent their transactions are regulated under Article 25 of GS Chapter 66; (4) purchases by persons primarily in the business of obtaining used clothing, children’s products, and children’s furniture from the public for less than $50 per item; and (5) purchases by persons primarily in the business of obtaining sporting goods and sporting equipment from the public for less than $50 per item. Adds a purpose to the list in GS 91A-2. Makes the act effective December 1, 2011 (was, October 1, 2011).
Amends GS 91A-10 to create a new subsection (b), which forbids a cash converter from purchasing from any person any property which is known to the cash converter to be stolen, unless there is a written agreement with local or state police. Makes a violation of this provision punishable under the applicable North Carolina criminal statutes.
Makes other technical changes.

Senate committee substitute makes the following changes to 1st edition.
Removes section amending GS 136-129, which concerned electronic billboards. Amends GS 136-133, which concerns required permits, to specify that the fee for outdoor advertising structures must not exceed a $150 (currently, $120) initial fee and a $90 annual renewal fee. Provides that $30 of each initial and annual fee will be used for highway beautification projects. Prohibits the use of additional funds from the Highway Trust Fund for vegetation replacement. Enacts new subsection (c) to GS 136-133, providing that no electrical utility permit will be denied to an outdoor advertising sign, as described, if the Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued a permit and the sign is valid and otherwise technically compliant. Amends proposed GS 136-133.1(a)(5), clarifying that the maximum cut or removal zone for vegetation for each sign face must meet certain specifications within city limits. Amends proposed GS 136-133.4(c), clarifying that DOT will determine traffic control signage (rather than the division roadside environmental engineer). Makes other clarifying and conforming changes, and makes a conforming change to the title.

Senate committee substitute makes the following changes to 1st edition. Amends GS 15A-401(b) clarifying that an officer may arrest without a warrant any person the officer has probable cause to believe has committed a criminal offense or violated a pretrial release order entered under GS 15A-534 or GS 15A-534.1(a)(2) in the officer’s presence. Makes conforming changes to the bill title.

Senate committee substitute makes the following changes to 1st edition.
Amends GS 153A-340(b)(2), clarifying that a Got to be NC product produced on a farm subject to a conservation agreement also is a bona fide farm purpose. Makes other clarifying changes.
Amends GS 160A-360, clarifying in new subsection (k) that bona fide farm purposes is defined in GS 153A-340. Defines property as a single tract of property or an identifiable portion of a single tract. Provides that property located in a municipality’s extraterritorial jurisdiction that is used for bona fide farm purposes is exempt from compliance with the municipality’s zoning authority and building code enforcement. Provides that once such property ceases to be used for bona fide farm purposes, such property is subject to the municipality’s zoning authority and building code enforcement. Specifies that any of the following is sufficient evidence that property is being used for bona fide farm purposes:
(1) A farm sales tax exemption certificate issued by the Department of Revenue.
(2) A copy of the property tax listing showing that the property is eligible for participation in the present use value program under GS 105-277.3.
(3) A copy of the farm owner or operator’s Schedule F from the owner or operator’s most recent federal income tax return.
(4) A forest management plan.
(5) A Farm Identification Number issued by the United States Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency.
Removes proposed GS 160A-58.29, which prohibited the annexation of land being used for bona fide farm purposes as defined in GS 153A-340 on the date of the resolution of intent to consider annexation, without the written consent of the owner or owners of the property.
Makes other technical changes, and makes a conforming change to the title.

AN ACT TO REPEAL THE REQUIREMENT THAT A PERSON OBTAIN A PERMIT TO RECEIVE, SELL, PURCHASE, OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER A CROSSBOW. Summarized in Daily Bulletin 3/23/11. Enacted April 28, 2011. Effective April 28, 2011.

Senate committee substitute makes the following changes to 1st edition. Makes a clarifying change to GS 20-118(c). Makes act effective December 1, 2011 (was, October 1, 2011).