ATTACHMENT 3

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1995 SESSION

RATIFIED BILL

CHAPTER 571

HOUSE BILL 1298

AN ACT REGARDING REQUIREMENTS FOR SPRINKLER SYSTEMS IN FRATERNITY AND SORORITY HOUSES IN THE TOWNS OF CHAPEL HILL AND CARRBORO  AND THEIR EXTRATERRITORIAL PLANNING JURISDICTIONS.

Section 1.   Notwithstanding any provision of the State Building Code or any public or local law to the contrary, including, but not limited to, Chapter 143 of the General Statutes, a town may require by ordinance the installation of sprinkler systems in all fraternity and sorority houses within the corporate limits of the town or within the town's extraterritorial planning jurisdiction, such installation to be completed, as provided in such ordinance, within a reasonable period of time, to be determined at the time of adoption of such ordinance, following the effective date of such ordinance.

Sec. 2.  This act applies to the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro only.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 19th day of June, 1996.