NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 297

HOUSE BILL 19

 

 

AN ACT TO REWRITE G.S. 74A-1, RELATING TO AUTHORITY OF GOVERNOR TO APPOINT SPECIAL POLICE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 74A-1, as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to Replacement Volume 2B of the General Statutes, is hereby rewritten, in its entirety, to read as follows:

"G.S. 74A-1.  Governor May Appoint and Commission Special Police. Any educational institution or hospital, whether State or private, or any other State institution, public utility company, construction company, manufacturing company, incorporated security patrols or corporations engaged in providing security or protection services for persons or property, may apply to the Governor to commission such persons as the institution, corporation or company may designate to act as policemen for it. The Governor upon such application may appoint such persons or so many of them as he may deem proper to be such policemen, and shall issue to the persons so appointed a commission to act as such policemen. Nothing contained in the provisions of this Section shall have the effect to relieve any such company or corporation from any civil liability for the acts of such policemen, in exercising or attempting to exercise the powers conferred by this Chapter."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of April, 1965.