NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 214

HOUSE BILL 251

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 143‑286 OF THE NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL STATUTES BY INSERTING THEREIN A NEW PARAGRAPH TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN EMPLOYEES OF THE JOHN H. KERR RESERVOIR DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION TO BE COMMISSIONED SPECIAL PEACE OFFICERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 143‑286 of the North Carolina General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph thereto to read as follows:

"Upon application by the John H. Kerr Reservoir Development Commission, the Governor is hereby authorized and empowered to commission as special officers such of the employees of the John H. Kerr Reservoir Development Commission as the commission may designate for the purpose of enforcing the laws, rules and regulations, enacted or adopted for the protection, preservation and government of parks, lakes, reservations and other lands or waters under the control or supervision of the John H. Kerr Reservoir Development Commission. Such employees shall receive no additional compensation for performing the duties of special peace officers. Employees so commissioned special peace officers as herein provided shall have the same powers of arrest, give bond, and be required to take an oath as provided for special police officers under G.S. 113‑28.2, G.S. 113‑28.3 and G.S. 113‑28.4 of the North Carolina General Statutes."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of April, 1961.