GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 654

SENATE BILL 599

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW COMMUNITY WATER SYSTEMS THE SAME EXEMPTION FROM BOILER REGULATIONS AS NOW AVAILABLE TO PRIVATE RESIDENCES AND SMALL APARTMENT HOUSES FOR THEIR HYDROPNEUMATIC PRESSURE TANKS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 95-69.10(b) is amended by adding a new subdivision (12), to read as follows:

"(12)   Hydropneumatic pressure tanks installed and operated by community water systems before October 1, 1983 when the tanks are located more than 50 feet from any occupied building. Hydropneumatic pressure tanks installed and operated by community water systems on or after October 1, 1983 when the tanks are located more than 75 feet from any occupied building. To qualify for these exemptions, the owner or operator of the community water system must certify to the Boiler Division of the North Carolina Department of Labor that the tanks are so located."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of June, 1983.