GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1995 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 306

SENATE BILL 543

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT SWORN AND CERTIFIED JAILERS AND TELECOMMUNICATORS EMPLOYED BY THE CATAWBA COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT ARE ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE THE BENEFITS AFFORDED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS THROUGH THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  For the purposes of benefits afforded on account of membership in the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System, a "law enforcement officer" as defined in G.S. 128-21(11b) and a "law-enforcement officer" as defined in G.S. 143-166.50(a)(3) shall include an employee of the Catawba Sheriff's Department serving as a sworn and certified jailer or telecommunicator.

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification and applies only as to persons who are employees of the Catawba County Sheriff's Department enrolled in the North Carolina Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System on that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 20th day of June, 1995.

 

 

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Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

 

 

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Harold J. Brubaker

Speaker of the House of Representatives