North Carolina § 106-6 - 1. Fees.

§ 106-6. 1. Fees.

A board or commission within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services may establish fees or charges for the services it provides. The Board of Agriculture, subject to the provisions of Chapter 146 of the General Statutes, may establish a rate schedule for the use of facilities operated by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-145, s. 11.2, effective July 1, 2011. History (1981, c. 495, s. 10; 1987, c. 827, s. 25; 1997-261, s. 109; 1999-413, s. 5; 2009-451, s. 11.3; 2011-145, s. 11.2.) Increase Various Agricultural Fees. - Session Laws 2005-276, s. 42.1(d), provide: "The Board of Agriculture shall charge no more than the following fees for agronomic services: "Test/Service Fee "(1) Routine nematode samples $ 3.00 "(2) Routine waste samples $ 5.00 "(3) Research soil and nematode samples $12.00 "(4) Research plant, waste, and solution samples $12.00 "(5) Nonresident nematode samples $14.00 "(6) Nonresident plant, waste, and solution samples $26.00 "(7) Special services for plant, waste, and solution samples: "a. Heavy metals-soils $25.00 "b. Nitrates-soils $ 5.00 "c. Waste-heavy metals $10.00 "d. Waste-N breakout $10.00 "e. Waste-liming equivalent $10.00 "f. Plant-chloride $ 5.00 "g. Plant-molybdenum $ 5.00 "h. Plant-petiole nitrates $ 5.00." Session Laws 2005-276, s. 42.1(e), provides: "The Board of Agriculture shall charge the following fees for animal disease diagnostic tests and services: "Test/Service Fee "(1) Histopath $30.00 "(2) Professional services-EIA $ 6.00 "(3) Professional services-blood pour-off fees $ 1.00 "(4) Vacuum tube handling fee $ 0.04" Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2003-284, s. 35.3(a), provides: "The budget for the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services reflects increases made by the Department to fees established under G.S. 106-6.1 for animal disease diagnostic tests and services." Session Laws 2003-284, s. 1.2, provides: "This act shall be known as the 'Current Operations and Capital Improvements Appropriations Act of 2003'." Session Laws 2003-284, s. 48.1, provides: "Parts 32 through 47 of this act do not affect the rights or liabilities of the State, a taxpayer, or another person arising under a statute amended or repealed by those parts before the effective date of its amendment or repeal; nor do they affect the right to any refund or credit of a tax that accrued under the amended or repealed statute before the effective date of its amendment or repeal." Session Laws 2003-284, s. 49.3, provides: "Except for statutory changes or other provisions that clearly indicate an intention to have effects beyond the 2003-2005 fiscal biennium, the textual provisions of this act apply only to funds appropriated for, and activities occurring during, the 2003-2005 fiscal biennium." Session Laws 2003-284, s. 49.5 is a severability clause. Session Laws 2005-276, s. 1.2, provides: "This act shall be known as the 'Current Operations and Capital Improvements Appropriations Act of 2005'." Session Laws 2005-276, s. 46.3, provides: "Except for statutory changes or other provisions that clearly indicate an intention to have effects beyond the 2005-2007 fiscal biennium, the textual provisions of this act apply only to funds appropriated for, and activities occurring during, the 2005-2007 fiscal biennium." Session Laws 2005-276, s. 46.5 is a severability clause. Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2009-451, s. 11.3, effective July 1, 2009, designated the previously existing provisions as subsection (a), and added subsection (b). Session Laws 2011-145, s. 11.2, effective July 1, 2011, repealed subsection (b).