GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2005
SESSION LAW 2005-168
HOUSE BILL 1482
AN ACT to exempt from the law governing smoking restrictions local departments of social services and the buildings and grounds where they are located.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 143-599, as amended by S.L. 2005-19, reads as rewritten:
"§ 143-599. Exemptions.
All of the following facilities shall be exempt from the provisions of this Article:
(1) Any primary or secondary school or child care center, except for a teacher's lounge.
(2) An enclosed elevator.
(3) Public school bus.
(4) Hospital, nursing home, rest home, and State facility operated under the authority of G.S. 122C-181.
(5) Local health department
and the building and grounds where the local health department is located.department
and local department of social services and the building and grounds where the
local health department or local department of social services, as applicable,
is located. For the purposes of this subdivision, "grounds" means
the area located within 50 linear feet of a local health department.
department or a local department of social services.
(6) Any nonprofit organization or corporation whose primary purpose is to discourage the use of tobacco products by the general public.
(7) Tobacco manufacturing, processing, and administrative facilities."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27th day of June, 2005.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Michael F. Easley
Governor
Approved 12:51 p.m. this 7th day of July, 2005