GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION
S.L. 1997-144
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 128-21(11b) reads as rewritten:
"(11b) 'Law Enforcement Officer' means a full-time paid
employee of an employer who is actively serving in a position with assigned primary
duties and responsibilities for prevention and detection of crime or for the
general enforcement of the criminal laws of the State or for serving civil
processes, and who possesses the power of arrest by virtue of an oath
administered under the authority of the State. employer, who possesses
the power of arrest, who has taken the law enforcement oath administered under
the authority of the State as prescribed by G.S. 11-11, and who is certified as
a law enforcement officer under the provisions of Chapter 17C of the
General Statutes or certified as a deputy sheriff under the provisions of
Chapter 17E of the General Statutes. 'Law enforcement officer' also means
the sheriff of the county. The number of paid personnel employed as law
enforcement officers by a law enforcement agency may not exceed the number of
law enforcement positions approved by the applicable local governing board."
Section 2. G.S. 143-166.50(a)(3) reads as rewritten:
"(3) 'Law-enforcement
officer' means a full-time paid employee of an employer, who is actively
serving in a position with assigned primary duties and responsibilities for
prevention and detection of crime or the general enforcement of the criminal
laws of the State or serving civil processes, and who possesses the power of
arrest by virtue of an oath administered under the authority of the State. possesses
the power of arrest, who has taken the law enforcement oath administered under
the authority of the State as prescribed by G.S. 11-11, and who is certified as
a law enforcement officer under the provisions of Chapter 17C of the
General Statutes or certified as a deputy sheriff under the provisions of
Chapter 17E of the General Statutes. 'Law enforcement officer' also means
the sheriff of the county. The number of paid personnel employed as law
enforcement officers by a law enforcement agency may not exceed the number of
law enforcement positions approved by the applicable local governing board."
Section 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 1997, and applies to all persons enrolled in the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27th day of May, 1997.
s/ Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
s/ Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor
Approved 3:36 p.m. this 4th day of June, 1997