NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 236

HOUSE BILL 697

 

 

AN ACT TO EXPAND THE TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF KENANSVILLE POLICE OFFICERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  In addition to all jurisdiction granted by G.S. 15A-402, G.S. 160A-285 and G.S. 160A-286, police officers employed by the Town of Kenansville, Duplin County, shall have all the powers invested in law enforcement officers by statute or common law in the following areas:

(a)       within the right-of-way of State Road 1301 from the northern town limit of Kenansville to and including the intersection of State Road 1301 and State Road 1398; and

(b)       within the right-of-way of State Road 1398 from the intersection of State Road 1398 and State Road 1301 to the Duplin County Airport; and

(c)       all that property constituting the Duplin County Airport, and more particularly described as that property described in the following deeds recorded in the Duplin County Registry of Deeds: Book 704, Page 349; Book 717, Page 81; Book 691, Page 180; Book 691, Page 192; Book 690, Page 248; Book 711, Page 147; Book 711, Page 154; Book 743, Page 279; Book 732, Page 19.

Sec. 2. For purposes of G.S. 15A-402(d), the term "territory" means the territory described in G.S. 15A-402(b) and (c), and the territory described in Section 1 of this act. This section applies only to the Town of Kenansville and police officers employed by that town.

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of April, 1979.