GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2015

SESSION LAW 2015-189

HOUSE BILL 797

AN ACT providing that registration and sensitive security information received or compiled by a city in the course of administering an alarm registration ordinance is not a public record.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Chapter 132 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read as follows:

"§ 132‑1.7A.  Alarm registration information.

A public record, as defined by G.S. 132‑1, does not include any registration or sensitive security information received or compiled by a city pursuant to an alarm registration ordinance. For purposes of this section, the term "alarm registration ordinance" means an ordinance adopted by a city that requires owners of security, burglar, fire, or similar alarm systems to register with the city. Information that is deemed confidential under this section and is not open to public inspection, examination, or copying includes registration information, including the name, home and business telephone number, and any other personal identifying information provided by an applicant pursuant to an alarm registration ordinance, and any sensitive security information pertaining to an applicant's alarm system, including residential or office blueprints, alarm system schematics, and similar drawings or diagrams."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30^th day of July, 2015.

                                                                    s/  Louis M. Pate, Jr.

                                                                         Deputy President Pro Tempore of the Senate

                                                                    s/  David R. Lewis

                                                                         Presiding Officer of the House of Representatives

                                                                    s/  Pat McCrory

                                                                         Governor

Approved 3:15 p.m. this 5^th day of August, 2015