NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 330

HOUSE BILL 622

 

AN ACT TO GRANT THE POLICE OF STATESVILLE AND MOORESVILLE COUNTY-WIDE JURISDICTION UPON CERTAIN CONDITIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  The police officers of the Town of Mooresville and the City of Statesville are hereby granted the same jurisdiction and authority, throughout the county of Iredell, to make arrest and to execute criminal process as they possess within their respective municipalities.  Provided, that the police officers of one municipality shall not exercise such authority within the corporate limits of the other municipality except when the mayor requests the assistance of the police officers from the other municipality. Provided, further that the police officers shall not exercise such authority outside their respective municipalities except by permission of their respective chiefs of police.

Sec. 1.1.  Nothing in this act shall diminish the lawful authority of the Sheriff of Iredell County.  With respect to matters of law enforcement and criminal investigations outside the municipalities, the jurisdiction and authority of the Sheriff or his duly appointed deputies shall supersede that of municipal police officers.

Sec. 2. When such officers are performing their duties outside their respective municipalities, pursuant to this act, they shall have the same authority, rights, privileges, and immunities, including coverage under workmen's compensation laws, which they have in their own municipality.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of May, 1971.