A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to lower privilege license taxes for businesses selling agricultural products.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 160A‑211(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	Restrictions. – A privilege license tax levied by a city on a business listed in this subsection may not exceed the following:
(1)	For a barbershop or a beauty salon, a rate of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per barber, manicurist, cosmetologist, beautician, or other operator employed.
(2)	For a business entity that is a wholesaler, receiver, distributor, and importer of fruits and vegetables only, a rate of one hundred dollars ($100.00)."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2013.