NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 163

HOUSE BILL 99

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF THE CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE TOWN OF BLACK MOUNTAIN IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. All policemen, town constables, town marshals or other law enforcement officers charged with the duty of making arrests or otherwise enforcing the criminal laws in the Town of Black Mountain in Buncombe County are hereby authorized and empowered to execute such duties and powers which are now lawfully exercised within the corporate limits, relating to the enforcement of the criminal laws, including arrests, in all that territory embraced within two miles in all directions from the present corporate limits of said Town of Black Mountain or for such distance from any future extension of said corporate limits.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 4th day of April, 1961.