Title: S.L. 2005-168
Subject: Session Law 2005-168
Category: Introduced Bill 2005

General Assembly of North Carolina	Session 2005

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 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."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27^th 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 7^th day of July, 2005

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