NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1049

HOUSE BILL 1046

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 4, CHAPTER 114 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES, TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION TO ESTABLISH A CENTRALIZED IDENTIFICATION SECTION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Article 4 of Chapter 114 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new Section at the end thereof, to be designated as G. S. 114-19, and to read as follows:

"G.S. 114-19.  Identification; Fingerprints; Photographs; Criminal Statistics. Every chief of police and sheriff in the State of North Carolina is hereby authorized to take, or cause to be taken, the fingerprints and photographs of any person charged with the commission of a felony and of any person who has been committed to jail or prison upon conviction of a crime. No officer shall take the photograph of a person arrested and charged with a misdemeanor, unless such person is a fugitive from justice or unless such person shall, at the time of arrest, have in his possession property or goods reasonably believed by such officer to have been stolen, or unless the officer has reasonable grounds to believe that such person is wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the State Bureau of Investigation or some other law enforcement officer or agent.

"Any fingerprints or photographs taken pursuant to this Section may be forwarded by the chief of police or sheriff to the Director of the State Bureau of Investigation.

"It shall be the duty of the State Bureau of Investigation to receive and collect police information, to assist in locating, identifying, and keeping records of criminals in this State, and from other states, and to compare, classify, compile, publish, make available and disseminate any and all such information to the sheriffs, constables, police authorities, courts or any other officials of the State requiring such criminal identification, crime statistics and other information respecting crimes local and national, and to conduct surveys and studies for the purpose of determining so far as is possible the source of any criminal conspiracy, crime wave, movement or cooperative action on the part of the criminals, reporting such conditions, and to cooperate with all officials in detecting and preventing."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 148-79 and G.S. 148-81 and all other laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  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 14th day of June, 1965.