2009 North Carolina Code
Chapter 66 - Commerce and Business.
§ 66-12. Requirements for matches permitted to be sold.
Article 2.
Manufacture and Sale of Matches and Lighters.
§ 66‑12. Requirements for matches permitted to be sold.
No person, association, or corporation shall manufacture, store, offer for sale, sell or otherwise dispose of or distribute white phosphorous, single‑dipped, strike‑anywhere matches of the type popularly known as "parlor matches"; nor manufacture, store, sell, offer for sale, or otherwise dispose of, or distribute, white phosphorous, double‑dipped, strike‑anywhere matches or any other type of double‑dipped matches, unless the bulb or first dip of such match is composed of a so‑called safety or inert composition, nonignitible as an abrasive surface; nor manufacture, store, sell, or offer for sale, or otherwise dispose of or distribute matches which when packed in a carton of 500 approximate capacity and placed in an oven maintained at a constant temperature of 200 degrees F., will ignite in eight hours; nor manufacture, store, offer for sale, sell or otherwise dispose of, or distribute, blazer, or so‑called wind matches, whether of the so‑called safety or strike‑anywhere type. (1915, c. 109, s. 12, I; C.S., s. 5113.)
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