NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 592

SENATE BILL 784

 

 

AN ACT TO MAKE TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS IN THE LAW RELATING TO PRIVATE PROTECTIVE SERVICES, CHAPTER 74B.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 74B-10 is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subsection (f) which shall read as follows:

"Upon notification of approval by the Private Protective Services Board, applicant must within 60 days obtain the license applied for or his application shall be void."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 74B-11(b) of Chapter 74B as the same appears in the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 2C of the General Statutes is hereby amended by deleting therefrom at lines 6 through 8 the words "A copy of the license shall at all times be posted in a conspicuous place at all branch offices of the licensee."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 74B-11 is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subsection (d) which shall read as follows:

"The operator or manager of any branch office shall be properly licensed and his license shall be posted at all times in a conspicuous place in the office."

Sec. 4.  G.S. 74B-11 is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subsection (e) which shall read as follows:

"A license granted under the provisions of this Chapter may be renewed by the Private Protective Services Board upon notification by licensee to the administrator of intended renewal and the payment of the proper fee specified in G.S. 74B-11(c). The renewal shall be finalized before the expiration date of the license unless the renewal is accompanied by a late renewal fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00). In no event will renewal be granted more than three months after date of expiration of a license. No person, firm, company, partnership or corporation shall carry on any business subject to this Chapter during any period which may exist between the date of expiration of a license and the renewal thereof."

Sec. 5.  G.S. 74B-13 is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subsection (c) which shall read as follows:

"The administrator shall be notified in writing of the termination of any employee registered under this Chapter within 30 days after said termination."

Sec. 6.  G.S. 74B-15(e) is hereby amended by deleting therefrom at lines 3 and 4 the words "The operator or manager of any branch office shall be a licensed detective."

Sec. 7.  G.S. 74B-16 is hereby repealed; a new Section 74B-16 is hereby enacted in lieu thereof and shall read as follows:

"§ 74B-16.  Penal provision. — Any person who violates any provision of this Chapter or any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant thereto shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be lined or imprisoned or both at the discretion of the court."

Sec. 8.  G.S. 74B-4(a) is hereby amended by deleting therefrom on line 5 the word "chairman".

Sec. 9.  G.S. 74B-4(a) is hereby further amended by deleting therefrom the first sentence of the second paragraph and substituting in lieu thereof the following words:

"The chairman of the board shall be chosen by the members of the board, and shall serve for a term of one year, and shall be eligible for reelection."

Sec. 10.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of June, 1975.