NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 206

SENATE BILL 240

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTERS 160 AND 97 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO AUTHORIZE MUNICIPALITIES TO ESTABLISH AUXILIARY POLICE DEPARTMENTS AND TO PROVIDE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BENEFITS TO THE MEMBERS THEREOF.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Chapter 160 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by inserting therein a new Section, to be designated G.S. 160-20.3, and to read as follows:

"G.S. 160-20.3.  Auxiliary police. The governing body of any city or town may by ordinance provide for the organization of an auxiliary police department, made up of volunteer members. Duly appointed and sworn members of any auxiliary police department shall, while undergoing official training and while performing duties on behalf of the city or town pursuant to orders or instructions of the Police Chief of the city or town, be entitled to all powers, privileges, and immunities afforded by law to regularly employed policemen, including benefits under The North Carolina Workmen's Compensation Act."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 97-2(5), as the same appears in the 1967 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 2D of the General Statutes, is hereby amended as follows:

(a)  by inserting in the second line of the last paragraph thereof, between the word "squad" and the word "under", the words "or duly appointed and sworn member of an auxiliary police department organized pursuant to G.S. 160-20.3"; and

(b)  by inserting at the end of the fourth line of the last paragraph thereof, immediately following the word "squad", the words "or member of an auxiliary police department".

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of April, 1969.