NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 61

HOUSE BILL 177

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH MAXIMUM LIMITATIONS ON THE NUMBER AND THE RATIO OF SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL TO UNIFORMED HIGHWAY PATROLMEN IN THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE HIGHWAY PATROL.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 20-185(a) is hereby amended by inserting at the end thereof a new sentence to read as follows:

"Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article, the number of supervisory personnel of the State Highway Patrol shall not exceed a number equal to eighteen percent (18%) of the personnel actually serving as uniformed highway patrolmen."

Sec. 2.  Nothing in this act is intended to require the demotion, reassignment or change in status of any member of the State Highway Patrol presently assigned in a supervisory capacity. If a reduction in the number of highway patrol personnel assigned in supervisory capacity is required in order for the State Highway Patrol to meet the mandatory maximum percentage of supervisory personnel as set out in Section 1 of this act, that reduction shall be achieved through normal attrition resulting from supervisory personnel resigning, retiring or voluntarily transferring from supervisory positions.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of March, 1975.