NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 669

SENATE BILL 487

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 4 OF CHAPTER 20 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO PROVIDE FOR GIFT OF BADGE AND SERVICE REVOLVER TO WIDOWS OR SURVIVORS OF STATE HIGHWAY PATROLMEN KILLED IN LINE OF DUTY AND TO PROVIDE FOR PURCHASE BY MEMBERS OF PATROL OF CERTAIN ITEMS OF EQUIPMENT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Article 4 of Chapter 20 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new section to be designated G.S. 20-187.2 and to read as follows:

"§ 20-187.2.  Badges and service revolver of deceased or retiring members. — (a) Widows, or in the event such members die unsurvived by a widow, surviving children of members of North Carolina State Law Enforcement Agencies killed in the line of duty or who are members of such agencies at the time of their deaths, and retiring members of such agencies, shall receive, upon request and at no cost to them, the badge and service revolver worn or carried by such deceased or retiring member, upon securing a permit as required by G.S. 14-402 et seq. or G.S. 14-409.1 et seq., or without such permit provided the revolver shall have been rendered incapable of being fired.

(b)        Active members of North Carolina State Law Enforcement Agencies, upon change of type of revolvers from .38 caliber or .41 caliber to .357 magnum, may purchase the revolver worn or carried by such member at a price which shall be the average yield to the State from the sale of similar revolvers during the preceding year."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of June, 1971.