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