North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 02 - AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES › Chapter 43 - MARKETS › Subchapter L - MARKETS › Section .0300 - FEES: WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA HORSE AND LIVESTOCK FACILITY FEE SCHEDULE › Section 43L .0308 - ADVERTISING MATTER

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) Distribution of
				  advertising material or matter of any kind, nature, or description by
				  concessionaires, exhibitors, patrons attending annual exhibitions on the
				  Western North Carolina Agricultural Center grounds, political parties, or by
				  any other person or persons whomsoever, is prohibited on the Agricultural
				  Center grounds unless such distribution shall be from within the assigned and
				  designated space and shall have been first duly authorized by the Western North
				  Carolina Agricultural Center Manager upon application thereto, and that
				  advertising material or matter of any kind, nature or description shall be on
				  the counter or display area and shall not be handed out unless the material is
				  requested by a patron attending an event at the Western North Carolina
				  Agricultural Center. Promiscuous handing out of such material, even from
				  designated areas, is prohibited.
(b) The distribution in any manner of
				  advertising material having a gummed or adhesive backing, such as labels, lapel
				  badges, car bumper or window stickers, etc., whether such distribution shall be
				  from a contracted exhibit or concession space or elsewhere, is prohibited upon
				  the Agricultural Center grounds. Persons or firms found distributing such
				  materials shall immediately forfeit all space right and in addition, may be
				  held financially responsible for any and all damage done to or occasioned by
				  the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center as a result of these materials
				  being affixed to Agricultural Center property by third parties.
(c) Operation of a sound truck or other
				  mobile vehicle equipped with a public address system or sign, whether such
				  vehicle is in motion or parked on the Agricultural Center grounds, whether
				  within or without the fenced-off area thereof, is hereby prohibited unless
				  authorized by the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center Manager.
(d) For the purpose of enforcing the
				  provisions of this Section, it is hereby determined that the Western North
				  Carolina Agricultural Center property shall consist of and constitute that
				  certain area of land in Buncombe County, North Carolina bounded on the south by
				  property owned by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (proposed NC
				  280 Interchange), on the east by I-26, on the north by Fanning Bridge Road and
				  on the west by Airport Road.
(e)
				  The prohibitions and restrictions relating to advertising in these Rules shall
				  not be construed as being applicable to lettered service trucks advertising a
				  concern or its products while making necessary deliveries of merchandise or
				  service to concessionaires or exhibitors on the Agricultural Center grounds, or
				  the normal small advertising on bumpers and windows of vehicles.
Authority
					 G.S.
					 106-530;
					 106-6.1;
Eff. June 1,
					 1994;
Pursuant to
					 G.S.
					 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without
					 substantive public interest Eff. September 23,
					 2017.