2005 North Carolina Code - General Statutes § 106-452. Maximum warehouse charges.

Article 39.

Leaf Tobacco Warehouses.

§ 106‑452.  Maximum warehouse charges.

The charges and expenses of handling and selling leaf tobacco upon the floor of tobacco warehouses shall not exceed the following schedule of prices, viz: for auction fees, fifteen cents (15¢) on all piles of 100 pounds or less, and twenty‑five cents (25¢) on all piles over 100 pounds; for weighing and handling, ten cents (10¢) per pile for all piles less than 100 pounds, for all piles over 100 pounds at the rate of ten cents (10¢) per hundred pounds; for commissions on the gross sales of leaf tobacco in said warehouses, not to exceed two and one‑half per centum (2 1/2%): Provided that tobacco warehouses selling burley tobacco only may charge commissions on the gross sales of burley leaf tobacco not to exceed three and one‑half per centum (3 1/2%).  There may also be a basket fee of twenty‑five cents (25¢) per basket on all burley leaf tobacco sold in such warehouses. (1895, c. 81; Rev., s. 3042; C.S., s. 5124; 1941, c. 291; 1955, c. 1029.)