# North Carolina · retail (refiner or terminal supplier) · cost floor — State below-cost motor fuel selling laws and minimum-markup percentages

For North Carolina · retail (refiner or terminal supplier) · cost floor, state is North Carolina; applies to is retail (refiner or terminal supplier); rule is cost floor; law name is Definitions; statute citation is G.S. 75-81, recorded from its source on 2026-08-20; source re-checked 2026-09-01.

- **State:** North Carolina _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Applies to:** retail (refiner or terminal supplier) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Rule:** cost floor _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Law name:** Definitions. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statute citation:** G.S. 75-81 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **How "cost" is defined:** For a refiner or terminal supplier, costs shall be presumed to be the refiner's or terminal supplier's prevailing price to the wholesale class of trade at the terminal used by the refiner or terminal supplier to obtain the motor fuel in question or the lowest prevailing price within 10 days prior to a sale alleged to be in violation of G.S. 75-82 hereof plus all transportation expenses including freight expenses (incurred and not otherwise included in the cost of the motor fuel), and motor fuel taxes. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> a. For a refiner or terminal supplier, costs shall be presumed to be the refiner's or terminal supplier's prevailing price to the wholesale class of trade at the terminal used by the refiner or terminal supplier to obtain the motor fuel in question or the lowest prevailing price within 10 days prior to a sale alleged to be in violation of G.S. 75-82 hereof plus all transportation expenses including freight expenses (incurred and not otherwise included in the cost of the motor fuel), and motor fuel taxes.

## Source

- https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_75/GS_75-81.html

Last verified: 2026-09-01. Review by: 2027-02-16.
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