NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1151

SENATE BILL 806

 

AN ACT TO EMPOWER THE ASHEVILLE REGIONAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY TO APPOINT, EMPLOY, SUPERVISE AND MAINTAIN POLICE OFFICERS, GUARDS AND SECURITY PERSONNEL AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE HIRING, SUPERVISING, COMPENSATING, INSURING AND RETIRING OF SUCH PERSONNEL.  

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Asheville Regional Airport Authority is authorized to appoint, employ, supervise and maintain police officers, guards and security personnel for the purpose of providing police protection, security and law enforcement on its premises in Buncombe County, North Carolina, and to empower such personnel to act as peace officers and law enforcement officers and to have all powers now exercised by police officers in the City of Asheville, North Carolina upon and with respect to said premises and to provide for the hiring, supervising, compensating, insuring and retiring of such personnel.

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of June, 1982.