2005 North Carolina Code - General Statutes § 119-17. Inspection of kerosene, gasoline and other petroleum products provided for.

§ 119‑17.  Inspection of kerosene, gasoline and other petroleum products provided for.

All kerosene used for illuminating or heating purposes and all gasoline used or intended to be used for generating power in internal combustion engines or otherwise sold or offered for sale, and all kerosene, benzine, naphtha, petroleum solvents, distillates, gas oil, furnace or fuel oil and all other volatile and inflammable liquids by whatever name known or sold and produced, manufactured, refined, prepared, distilled, compounded or blended for the purpose of generating power in motor vehicles for the propulsion thereof by means of internal combustion engines or which are sold or used for such purposes, and any and all substances or liquids which in themselves or by reasonable combination with others might be used for or as substitutes for motor fuel shall be subject to inspection, to the end that the public may be protected in the quality of petroleum products it buys, that the State's revenue may be protected, and that frauds, substitutions, adulterations and other reprehensible practices may be prevented. (1937, c. 425, s. 4.)