Title: H239 [Ratified]
Category: Introduced Bill 2005

General Assembly of North Carolina	Session 2005

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2005

HOUSE BILL 239
RATIFIED BILL

AN ACT to exempt from the law governing smoking restrictions local health departments and the buildings and grounds where they are located.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 143‑599 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.  For the purposes of this subdivision, "grounds" means the area located within 50 linear feet of a local health department.(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 18^th day of April, 2005.

	_____________________________________
		 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

	_____________________________________
		 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	_____________________________________
		 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2005

Page 	 	H239 [Ratified]

H239 [Ratified]	 	Page