A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to strengthen the requirements for issuing building permits under the laws regulating general contractors.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The North Carolina Code Officials Qualification Board shall take steps to ensure that building inspectors enforce the requirements of G.S. 87‑14 and shall bring disciplinary action against any building inspector who willfully or negligently issues a building permit in violation of G.S. 87‑14.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the North Carolina Code Officials Qualification Board the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the 2005‑2006 fiscal year for purposes of this act.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.