GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2005

SESSION LAW 2006-133

HOUSE BILL 448

AN ACT to exempt community colleges from the law governing smoking restrictions.

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 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 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.

(8)       Indoor arenas with a seating capacity greater than 23,000.

(9)       State correctional facilities operated by the Department of Correction.

(10) Community colleges."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 12^th day of July, 2006.

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/ James B. Black

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

Approved 7:29 p.m. this 19^th day of July, 2006