§ 106-461. Nested, shingled or overhung tobacco. - North Carolina Statutes

Article 40.

Leaf Tobacco Sales.

§ 106‑461.  Nested, shingled or overhungtobacco.

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell oroffer to sale, upon any leaf tobacco warehouse floor, any pile or piles oftobacco, which are nested, or shingled, or overhung, or either as hereinafterdefined:

(1)        Nesting tobacco: That is, so arranging tobacco in the pileoffered for sale that it is impossible for the buyer thereof to pull leavesfrom the bottom of such pile for the purpose of inspection;

(2)        Shingling tobacco: That is, so arranging a pile of tobaccothat a better quality of tobacco appears upon the outside and tobacco ofinferior quality appears on the inside of such pile; and

(3)        Overhanging tobacco: This is, so arranging a pile of tobacco that there are alternate bundles of good and sorry tobacco. (1933, c. 467, s. 1.)