NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 888

HOUSE BILL 890

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO RADIO EQUIPMENT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE SHERIFF OF MITCHELL COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Mitchell County shall be and are hereby required to purchase, install, and maintain at county expense in motor vehicles used by the Sheriff of Mitchell County and his salaried deputies, and, in the election of the Sheriff, either in the Office of the Sheriff of Mitchell County, or in the Office of the Jailer of Mitchell County under the direction of the Sheriff of Mitchell County for use by the Sheriff and his staff in the performance of their official duties, two-way radio sets and systems connected with the radio net of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol. Said Board of County Commissioners may utilize for such purposes the radio equipment and radio facilities acquired and installed by the county under and pursuant to the provisions of Section 2½ of Chapter 1061 of the Session Laws of 1959, suitably repaired and in working order. The responsibility and authority to purchase additional radio equipment, and to make new or revised installations of radio equipment necessary to insure an effective law enforcement radio network in Mitchell County, and to maintain and repair and to keep in working order, all components which may be necessary for the continued operation and maintenance by the Office of the Sheriff of Mitchell County of his portion of a law enforcement radio network in Mitchell County, and from and at the expense of the county, is hereby expressly confirmed and directed.

Sec. 2. The payment to the Sheriff of Mitchell County of an additional increment of compensation or expense in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per month for the operation of his automobile for official business, originally authorized under the provisions of the last sentence of Section 2½ of Chapter 1061 of the Session Laws of 1959, is hereby ratified and confirmed to all such payments made in the past, and the payment of such sums to the Sheriff of Mitchell County shall continue, without interruption, and no part of such payment shall be considered as payment for housing and maintaining in said motor vehicle of a component part of the law enforcement net of Mitchell County hereinabove referred to.

Sec. 3. Except as hereinabove modified, the provisions of Section 21/2 of Chapter 1061 of the Session Laws of 1959 are continued in full force and effect. It is contemplated that the Board of County Commissioners under and in conformance with the authority and duty conferred upon them under the provisions of Sections 1 and 2 of this Act, shall be required to purchase, install and maintain in working order and condition, at least one additional two-way radio installation.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of June, 1965.