North Carolina § 58-31-40 - Commissioner to inspect State property.

§ 58-31-40. Commissioner to inspect State property.

The Commissioner shall, as often as is required in the fire code adopted by the North Carolina Building Code Council or more often if the Commissioner considers it necessary, visit, inspect, and thoroughly examine every State property to analyze and determine its protection from fire, including the property's occupants or contents. The Commissioner shall notify in writing the agency or official in charge of the property of any defect noted by the Commissioner or any improvement considered by the Commissioner to be necessary, and a copy of that notice shall be forwarded by the Commissioner to the Department of Administration. No agency or person authorized or directed by law to select a plan or erect a building comprising 20,000 square feet or more for the use of any county, city, or school district shall receive and approve of the plan until it is submitted to and approved by the Commissioner as to the safety of the proposed building from fire, including the property's occupants or contents. Repealed by Session Laws 2009-474, s. 1, effective October 1, 2009. History (1901, c. 710, ss. 1, 2; 1903, c. 771, s. 3; Rev., s. 4829; 1909, c. 880; 1919, c. 186, s. 3; C.S., s. 6453; 2000-122, s. 10; 2001-487, s. 19; 2001-496, s. 11.1; 2007-303, s. 1; 2009-474, s. 1; 2012-161, s. 2.) Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2007-303, s. 2, provides: "This act becomes effective October 1, 2007, and applies to plans submitted to the Commissioner for approval on or after that date as to the safety of any proposed county, city, or school district building comprising 20,000 square feet or more from fire including the property's occupants or contents." Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2007-303, s. 1, effective October 1, 2007, substituted "20,000 square feet" or "10,000 square feet" in subsection (b). See Editor's note for applicability provision. Session Laws 2009-474, s. 1, effective October 1, 2009, rewrote the section. Session Laws 2012-161, s. 2, effective July 12, 2012, substituted "shall, as often as is required in the fire code adopted by the North Carolina Building Code Council" for "shall, at least once every year" near the beginning of the first sentence of subsection (a).