GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1991

CHAPTER 868
HOUSE BILL 1335

AN ACT TO LIMIT THE LIABILITY OF FARMERS WHO ALLOW GLEANING.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Chapter 106 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new Article to read:
"ARTICLE 57A.
"Civil Liability of Farmers.
"§ 106-706.  Exemption from civil liability for farmers permitting gleaning.
Any farmer, as an owner, lessee, occupant, or otherwise in control of land, who allows without compensation another person to enter upon the land for the purpose of removing any crops remaining in the farmer's fields following the harvesting of the crops, owes that person the same duty of care the farmer owes a trespasser."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 1992.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th day of July, 1992.

James C. Gardner
President of the Senate

Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives