Bill Text: NC H813 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Building Code Inspections/Industrial Machinery
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 4)
Status: (Passed) 2012-06-20 - Ch. SL 2012-34 [H813 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2011-H813-Chaptered.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
SESSION LAW 2012-34
HOUSE BILL 813
AN ACT to expand the definition of industrial machinery exempt from building code inspection to include equipment and machinery acquired by State‑Supported centers providing testing, research, and development services to manufacturing clients.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 143‑138(b9) reads as rewritten:
"(b9) Nothing in this
Article shall extend to or be construed as being applicable to the regulation
of the design, construction, location, installation, or operation of industrial
machinery. However, if during the building code inspection process, an
electrical inspector has any concerns about the electrical safety of a piece of
industrial machinery, the electrical inspector may refer that concern to the
Occupational Safety and Health Division in the North Carolina Department of
Labor but shall not withhold the certificate of occupancy nor mandate third‑party
testing of the industrial machinery based solely on this concern. For the
purposes of this paragraph, "industrial machinery" means equipment
and machinery used in a system of operations for the explicit purpose of
producing a product product or acquired by a State‑supported
center providing testing, research, and development services to manufacturing
clients. The term does not include equipment that is permanently attached
to or a component part of a building and related to general building services
such as ventilation, heating and cooling, plumbing, fire suppression or
prevention, and general electrical transmission."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 14th day of June, 2012.
s/ Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
s/ Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved 11:49 a.m. this 20th day of June, 2012
