GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2017
S 2
SENATE BILL 5
Corrected Copy 1/30/17
Short Title: Mecklenburg/Police Countywide Jurisdiction. |
(Local) |
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Sponsors: |
Senators Tarte, Bishop, and J. Jackson (Primary Sponsors). |
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Referred to: |
Rules and Operations of the Senate |
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January 26, 2017
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT granting COUNTYWIDE JURISDICTION TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENTs OF THE towns of cornelius, davidson, Huntersville, Matthews, Mint Hill, and Pineville.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Section 1 of Chapter 1170 of the 1969 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Section 1. Upon
approval of the Board of Commissioners of Mecklenburg County County, all
policemen police officers of the City of Charlotte and the
Towns of Cornelius, Davidson, Huntersville, Matthews, Mint Hill, and Pineville shall
thereafter be authorized and empowered to exercise throughout the unincorporated
areas of the County of Mecklenburg Mecklenburg, as designated by
the Board of Commissioners, the same jurisdiction, authority, powers and
rights, including arrest and service of criminal and civil process,
which they are authorized by law to exercise within the City of Charlotte, the
corporate boundaries of their own municipality, and shall have the
privileges and immunities, including coverage under Workmen's Compensation
laws, which they now have within the City of Charlotte, have, provided
that the City of Charlotte municipality and Mecklenburg County
shall, prior to the exercise of any of said the powers or
authority, enter into an agreement setting forth the guidelines and procedures
for implementation of this Act.act. The Board of Commissioners shall not
approve the exercise of powers or authority by a municipality's police officers
in an unincorporated area of Mecklenburg County if the area is in another
municipality's extraterritorial planning jurisdiction, unless the governing
body of the other municipality consents in writing. However, nothing in this
section shall restrict or prohibit the authority granted to the police officers
of the City of Charlotte by the Board of Commissioners to exercise powers or authority
over an unincorporated area of the County on or before the date this act
becomes effective. Nothing in this section shall restrict or prohibit the
Sheriff of Mecklenburg County from exercising the powers and authority of the
Sheriff's Office."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.