GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION
S.L. 1997-320
AN ACT TO CREATE THE BROUGHTON HOSPITAL JOINT SECURITY FORCE AND TO AMEND THE LAW ESTABLISHING THE BLACK MOUNTAIN JOINT SECURITY FORCE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. Article 6 of Chapter 122C of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new Part to read:
"Part 2A. Broughton Hospital Joint Security Force.
"§ 122C-430. Joint security force.
The Secretary may designate one or more special police officers who shall make up a joint security force to enforce the law of North Carolina and any ordinance or regulation adopted pursuant to G.S. 143-116.6 or G.S. 143-116.7 or pursuant to the authority granted the Department by any other law on the territory of the Broughton Hospital, North Carolina School for the Deaf, Western Regional Vocational Rehabilitation Facility, Western Carolina Center, and the surrounding grounds and land adjacent to Broughton Hospital allocated to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, all in Burke County. After taking the oath of office for law enforcement officers as set out in G.S. 11-11, these special police officers have the same powers as peace officers now vested in sheriffs within the territory embraced by the named facilities. These special police officers may arrest persons outside the territory of the named institutions but within the confines of Burke County when the person arrested has committed a criminal offense within that territory for which the officers could have arrested the person within that territory, and the arrest is made during the person's immediate and continuous flight from that territory."
Section 2. G.S. 122C-421(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) The Secretary may
designate one or more special police officers who shall make up a joint
security force to enforce the law of North Carolina and any ordinance or
regulation adopted pursuant to G.S. 143-116.6 or G.S. 143-116.7 or pursuant to
the authority granted the Department by any other law on the territory of the
Black Mountain Center, the Alcohol Rehabilitation Center, and the Juvenile
Evaluation Center, all in Buncombe County. These After taking the
oath of office for law enforcement officers as set out in G.S. 11-11, these special
police officers have the same powers as peace officers now vested in sheriffs
within the territory embraced by the named centers. These special police
officers shall also have the power prescribed by G.S. 7A-571(a)(4) outside the
territory embraced by the named centers but within the confines of Buncombe
County. These special police officers may arrest persons outside the
territory of the named centers but within the confines of Buncombe County when
the person arrested has committed a criminal offense within that territory, for
which the officers could have arrested the person within that territory, and
the arrest is made during the person's immediate and continuous flight from
that territory."
Section 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of July, 1997.
s/ Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
s/ Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor
Approved 8:31 a.m. this 23rd day of July, 1997