NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 255

HOUSE BILL 645

 

AN ACT AMENDING CHAPTER 16 OF THE 1957 SESSION LAWS AS RELATES TO THE GASTON COUNTY RURAL POLICE DEPARTMENT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Section 10 of Chapter 16 of the 1957 Session Laws is hereby amended by rewriting the first sentence thereof to read as follows:

"The Rural Police Department shall consist of a chief and such officers and members of the department as the Board of County Commissioners shall, in its discretion, deem sufficient to provide police protection in the rural areas of the county. The Board of County Commissioners, by resolution, may impose upon the rural Police Department such duties as it may deem proper relating to ambulance service in Gaston County."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of April, 1971.