AN ACT to allow a public university to add bleachers to an existing softball field without having to construct additional plumbing facilities.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding any requirements for additional plumbing facilities imposed under Section 403.3.1.4, Table 403.1 and Table 403.4 of Chapter 4 of the North Carolina Plumbing Code, 2002 Edition, a public university, as part of its addition of bleachers to an existing softball field, shall not be required to provide facilities in addition to those facilities currently existing at the stadium.
SECTION 2.  This act applies to public universities located in counties that (i) have a population of 160,000 or more according to the most recent decennial federal census; (ii) border the Atlantic Ocean; and (iii) border no more than two other counties that are a part of this State.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 12th day of June, 2003.

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

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

This bill having been presented to the Governor for his signature on the 13th day of June, 2003 and the Governor having failed to approve it within the time prescribed by law, the same is hereby declared to have become a law.
This 24th day of June, 2003

	s/	 Leigh A. Goodman
	 Enrolling Clerk