GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
H 3
HOUSE BILL 813*
Committee Substitute Favorable 6/1/11
Senate Rules and Operations of the Senate Committee Substitute Adopted 6/7/12
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Short Title: Bldg. Code Inspections/Industrial Machinery. |
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April 7, 2011
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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.