GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 162
HOUSE BILL 68

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE TOWN OF BEECH MOUNTAIN TO REQUIRE THAT RENTAL RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNITS HAVE SMOKE DETECTORS AND FIRE EXTINGUISHERS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The Charter of the Town of Beech Mountain, being Chapter 246 of the 1981 Session Laws, is amended by adding a new Article to read:
"ARTICLE IX.
"SMOKE DETECTORS AND FIRE EXTINGUISHERS.
"Sec. 9.1. Smoke Detectors and Fire Extinguishers. (a) Notwithstanding any provisions of the North Carolina State Building Code or any general or local law, the Town of Beech Mountain may by ordinance require the owners of rental residential dwelling units, not required by the State Building Code to have smoke detectors, to install smoke detectors within 90 days from the passage of the ordinance.
(b)	Notwithstanding any provisions of the North Carolina State Building Code or any general or local law, the Town of Beech Mountain may by ordinance require the owners of rental residential dwelling units, not required by the State Building Code to have fire extinguishers, to install fire extinguishers in such units within 90 days from the passage of the ordinance."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 5th day of June, 1995.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives