GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION

CHAPTER 82
SENATE BILL 551

AN ACT TO PERMIT THE UTILITIES COMMISSION TO EXEMPT CELLULAR FROM REGULATION UNDER CHAPTER 62.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Article 6A of Chapter 62 is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 62-125.  Exemption for cellular telephone service.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Commission may, to the extent it finds such services to be competitive and such action in the public interest, exempt domestic public cellular radio telecommunications service providers, if licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, from regulation under any or all of the provisions of this Chapter.  Nothing in this section shall be construed to diminish any other authority granted the Commission in this Chapter."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 13th day of May, 1991.

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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives