GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

CHAPTER 463

SENATE BILL 370

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT COPIES OF PROTECTIVE ORDERS ISSUED IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASES MAY BE RETAINED BY COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 50B-3(c) is amended by rewriting the last sentence to read:

"If the victim does not reside in a city or resides in a city with no police department, copies shall be issued to and retained by the sheriff, and the county police department, if any, of the county in which the victim resides."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1985.