AN ACT TO EXEMPT LARGE INDOOR ARENAS WITH SEATING CAPACITIES GREATER THAN twenty-three thousand FROM SMOKING REGULATIONS PROVIDED FOR IN ARTICLE 64 OF CHAPTER 143 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 143‑599 reads as rewritten:
"§ 143‑599.  Exemptions.
All of the following facilities shall be exempt from the provisions of this Article:
(1)	Any primary or secondary school or child care center, except for a teacher's lounge.
(2)	An enclosed elevator.
(3)	Public school bus.
(4)	Hospital, nursing home, rest home, and State facility operated under the authority of G.S. 122C‑181.
(5)	Local health department.
(6)	Any nonprofit organization or corporation whose primary purpose is to discourage the use of tobacco products by the general public.
(7)	Tobacco manufacturing, processing, and administrative facilities.
(8)	Indoor arenas with a seating capacity greater than 23,000."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 20th day of July, 2005.

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		 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

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		 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

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		 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2005