H740 - Search and Rescue Rename/Disputed County Boundaries/Mapping. (SL 2017-170)

Overview: S.L. 2017-170 modernizes and updates statutes related to the urban search and rescue program and the North Carolina Geodetic Survey, including the following:

• Changes the name of the Urban Search and Rescue Program to the North Carolina Search and Rescue Program, and directs the Secretary of the Department of Public Safety to include reliance on memorandums of understanding and agreement with contract response teams in search and rescue efforts.
• Directs the North Carolina Geodetic Survey to assist counties in defining and reestablishing the location of an uncertain or disputed boundary, upon receiving written request from all counties adjacent to the uncertain or disputed boundary.
• Requires that maps, drawings, or documents identifying the protected mountain ridges be housed with the office of the North Carolina Geodetic Survey, NC Emergency Management, in Raleigh.

The section of the act pertaining to the search and rescue program became effective July 1, 2017. The sections of the act pertaining to the North Carolina Geodetic Survey became effective July 21, 2017.