NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 280

SENATE BILL 100

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 129-4 AS IT RELATES TO THE POWER OF ARREST GRANTED TO THE STATE CAPITOL POLICE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 129-4(6) and (7) are hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"(6)      To serve as a special police officer and in that capacity to have the same power of arrest as the police officers of the City of Raleigh. Such authority may be exercised within the same territorial jurisdiction as exercised by the police officers of the City of Raleigh, and in addition thereto the authority of a deputy sheriff may be exercised on property owned, leased or maintained by the State located in the County of Wake.

(7)        To appoint as special police officers such reliable persons as he may deem necessary, and such officers shall have the same power of arrest as herein conferred upon the Director. Before the Director or the special police officers may exercise the power of arrest, they shall take an oath, to be administered by any person authorized to administer oaths, as required by law."

Sec. 2.  This act shall be effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of May, 1971.