NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1014

HOUSE BILL 904

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 8, PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS OF 1931, CREATING AND ESTABLISHING THE SALISBURY-ROWAN COUNTY PEACE OFFICERS' PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 2, Chapter 8, Public-Local Laws of 1931, is amended by adding the following at the end thereof:

"Provided, that the term 'Peace Officers', as used herein shall also be deemed to include all members of the State Highway Patrol empowered to make arrests and assigned to active duty in the enforcement of the State Motor Vehicle Laws in Rowan County, and residing in said county. Whenever any such State highway patrolman is transferred from Rowan County to another district, his eligibility for benefits under this Act shall cease and terminate. Provided, that any State highway patrolman who is transferred from Rowan County and is later reassigned for duty in said county shall become again eligible for benefits under such terms and conditions as may be determined by the executive board, which is hereinafter created.

"Provided further, that if any State highway patrolman becomes a member of the Salisbury-Rowan County Peace Officers' Protective Association, as provided for in this Act, he shall not be eligible for retirement or pension benefits until he completes twenty years of service as a State highway patrolman in Rowan County and is a member of said association during such period of time.

"Provided further, that any active peace officer of Rowan County who has heretofore served in Rowan County in excess of fifteen (15) years shall be eligible to receive credit for the entire length of service upon payment of all dues for said period of service; provided said payment is made on or before January 1, 1960."

Sec. 2. Chapter 8, Public-Local Laws of 1931, is further amended as follows:

(a)       By striking out the words, "other than courts of a Justice of the Peace," appearing in lines two and three of Section 6 thereof, and by striking out the comma appearing at the end of said words; and,

(b)       By striking out the words "Provided, however, that such Officers' Emergency Fee of One Dollar shall not be taxed in the costs in cases of violation of city ordinances, or in any case wherein a justice of the peace has final concurrent jurisdiction", appearing in the last sentence of the first paragraph of Section 6 thereof.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1959.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1959.