AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A SPECIAL DEADLINE FOR EXEMPT ADULT housing FACILITIES LOCATED IN A DOWnTOWN AREA AND BEING RELOCATED DUE TO A MAJOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  The General Assembly finds that economic development of downtown areas of major urban centers may require displacement of existing facilities that have been under time constraints for compliance with statutory deadlines.
SECTION 2.  As used in this act, a "specially impacted adult care home" is a building that has received an exemption under Section 11.9(a) of S.L. 2000‑67 and is:
(1)	Ten stories or more in height;
(2)	Located within the boundaries of a municipal service district created under Article 23 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes;
(3)	Located within 100 yards of a mixed‑use building of more than 10 stories that is being opened for occupancy after the date of enactment of this act; and
(4)	Located within 100 yards of an office building that is more than 20 stories in height,
and where some of the occupants of the building are to be relocated to a facility in the same county but not on the campus of any college.
SECTION 3.(a)  In applying to a "specially impacted adult care home", Section 11.69(b2) of S.L. 1997‑443, as enacted by Section 3 of S.L. 2001‑234, "June 1, 2004" shall be read as "June 1, 2005", and "December 1, 2004" shall be read as "December 1, 2005".
SECTION 3.(b)  One facility where some of the occupants of the building are relocated under Section 2 of this act shall continue to have the same status under Section 11.9(a) of S.L. 2000‑67 as the facility from where the occupants were relocated.
SECTION 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 19th day of May, 2004.

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Richard T. Morgan
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved 11:59 a.m. this 26th day of May, 2004