GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

SESSION LAW 1999-156
HOUSE BILL 728

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF GREENVILLE TO REQUIRE FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS IN FRATERNITY AND SORORITY HOUSES WITHIN THE CITY AND THE CITY'S EXTRATERRITORIAL PLANNING JURISDICTION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Notwithstanding any provision of the State Building Code or any public or local law to the contrary, including Chapter 143 of the General Statutes, the City of Greenville may require by ordinance the installation of a fire alarm system in all fraternity and sorority houses within the corporate limits of the City or within the City's extraterritorial planning jurisdiction, the installation to be completed as provided in the ordinance within a reasonable period of time, to be determined at the adoption of the ordinance, following the effective date of the ordinance.  A fire alarm system shall include a fire alarm control panel, manual fire alarm pull boxes at each required exit, smoke detectors in all sleep areas, heat detectors in unoccupied areas, audible devices that can be heard throughout the houses, a central monitoring station, and a power source.
Section 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 8th day of June, 1999.

s/	Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

s/	James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives