NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 835

SENATE BILL 648

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE JURISDICTION OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE AND MEMBERS OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF GASTONIA TO INCLUDE ALL THE TERRITORY SITUATED WITHIN FIVE MILES OF THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF SAID CITY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  That the Chief of Police and each and every member of the Police Department of the City of Gastonia and of the City of Kings Mountain are hereby given the same jurisdiction and power in all territory situated within five miles of their respective corporate limits as are now exercised by police officers within the corporate limits of said municipality.

Sec. 2. In the event of land lying outside the corporate limits of either city and lying within another municipality, the jurisdiction of the Chief of Police and members of the Police Department of that city shall terminate at the corporate limits of such other municipality unless such other municipality, by action of its governing body, permits the Chief of Police and members of the Police Department of the City to exercise the power vested in them under this Act.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of June, 1969.