NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 443

HOUSE BILL 606

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 6-52 RELATING TO THE WITNESS FEES OF SALARIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS IN THE CRIMINAL COURTS OF WAYNE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. G. S. 6-52, as the same appears in Volume 1B of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"Provided that in Wayne County all salaried law enforcement officers may prove their attendance on the first day that a criminal case in which they are a witness is scheduled for trial, and on the day that the case is actually tried, and shall receive the regular witness fee for attendance at any Superior Court or inferior criminal court sitting within the territorial boundary in which such officers have authority to make arrests; provided that in no event shall a salaried officer be entitled to witness fees for more than two days in any one case."

Sec. 2. Chapter 117, Session Laws of 1955, and all other laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 5th day of May, 1969.