NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 876

HOUSE BILL 1204

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE POLICEMEN AND OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF WALLACE TO EXERCISE THEIR LAW ENFORCEMENT POWERS BEYOND THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF SAID TOWN AND TO EXTEND THE EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF THE MAYOR'S COURT OF THE TOWN OF WALLACE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. All policemen and other law enforcement officers charged with the duty of making arrests or otherwise enforcing the criminal laws of the Town of Wallace in Duplin County are hereby given the same authority, relating to the enforcement of the criminal laws, as they now have within the corporate limits of said town (1) in all the territory embraced within one and one-half miles in all directions from the corporate limits of said town; provided, that nothing in this subsection shall be construed to confer any authority upon law enforcement officers of the Town of Wallace in any territory located in Pender County or within the corporate limits of the Town of Teacheys, and (2) upon any property owned or leased by the Town of Wallace and used by the town for the Wallace Municipal Airport, including buildings, parking areas, runways, right of ways and any other property used for such purposes, even though such property may be located beyond one and one-half miles from the corporate limits of the town and even though such property may be located in Pender County, notwithstanding any provision contained in subsection (1).

Sec. 2. Section 1 of Chapter 664 of the Session Laws of 1957 is rewritten to read as follows:

"Section 1. Section 6 of Chapter 596 of the Session Laws of 1949 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"The jurisdiction of the Mayor's Court of the Town of Wallace shall extend (1) throughout all the territory extending one and one-half miles in all directions from the corporate limits of said town; provided, that nothing in this subsection shall be construed to confer any jurisdiction on the Mayor's Court of the Town of Wallace for offenses committed within Pender County or within the corporate limits of the Town of Teacheys, and (2) to any property owned or leased by the Town of Wallace and used by the town for the Wallace Municipal Airport, including buildings, parking areas, runways, right of ways and other property used for such purposes, even though such property may be located beyond one and one-half miles from the town's corporate limits and even though such property may be located in Pender County, notwithstanding any provision contained in subsection (1)."

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 its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of June, 1963.