A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to allow the town of carrboro to require sprinklers in bars, clubs, and other similar places of public assembly that have gatherings of more than one hundred people and sell alcoholic beverages.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  A town may, by ordinance, require bars, clubs, and other similar places of public assembly that have gatherings of more than 100 persons and sell alcoholic beverages to install and maintain fire sprinkler systems in any indoor areas. Similar places of public occupancy also include dance halls, pool and billiard parlors, and music clubs.
This act applies to any new occupancy prior to issuance of a certificate of occupancy. The town may make it applicable within a period of five years from enactment of the ordinance to any existing occupancy with a rated occupancy load exceeding 100 persons.
In adopting the ordinance, the town may incorporate applicable definitions of the State fire code.
SECTION 2.  This act applies to the Town of Carrboro only.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.