NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 347

SENATE BILL 428

AN ACT AUTHORIZING COMMERICAL AND SPORTS FISHERIES INSPECTORS AND WILDLIFE PROTECTORS TO OBTAIN AND EXECUTE SEARCH WARRANTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  There is hereby enacted a statute to be designated as G.S. 113-139 and to read as follows:

"G. S. 113-139.  Search warrants. (a) Inspectors and protectors are authorized to obtain and execute search warrants within the limitations of this section from any official authorized to issue search warrants in accordance with the procedure in Article 4 of Chapter 15 of the General Statutes.

"(b)      Search warrants which inspectors may execute must be for evidence, fruits, or instrumentalities of some criminal offense as to which the Department is granted exclusive or primary jurisdiction in this subchapter.

"(c)       Search warrants which protectors may execute must be for evidence, fruits, or instrumentalities of some criminal offense as to which the Commission is granted exclusive or primary jurisdiction in this chapter or elsewhere, including Chapters 75A and 143."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of April, 1969.