NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 566

HOUSE BILL 895

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE SHERIFF OF SWAIN COUNTY AND THE SHERIFF OF JACKSON COUNTY TO APPOINT SPECIAL DEPUTIES FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT ON THOSE PORTIONS OF THE CHEROKEE INDIAN RESERVATION LOCATED WITHIN SAID COUNTIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Sheriff of Jackson County, with the approval of the Sheriff of Swain County, is authorized to appoint not to exceed three deputy sheriffs, who shall be clothed with the power of arrest and shall have the power to execute civil and criminal process in all that territory comprising the Cherokee Indian Reservation which is located within the boundaries of Jackson and Swain Counties.

The Sheriff of Swain County, with the approval of the Sheriff of Jackson County, is authorized to appoint not to exceed three deputy sheriffs, who shall be clothed with the power of arrest and shall have the power to execute civil and criminal process in all that territory comprising the Cherokee Indian Reservation which is located within the boundaries of Swain and Jackson Counties.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 20th day of May, 1959.