NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 491

HOUSE BILL 418

 

 

AN ACT TO TRANSFER THE BUTNER PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CRIME CONTROL AND PUBLIC SAFETY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 122-98 is rewritten to read:

"§ 122-98.  Butner public safety department. - (a) The Secretary of Crime Control and Public Safety is authorized to employ special police officers for the territory embraced by the John Umstead Hospital site and any property adjacent to that site which is owned or leased by the Department of Human Resources or any other agency of the State. The territorial jurisdiction of these special police officers shall also include any property formerly a part of the John Umstead Hospital site which has subsequently been acquired from the Department of Human Resources by purchase or lease. The Secretary of Crime Control and Public Safety may organize these special police officers into a public safety department for that property and may locate that department within the principal department as permitted by the Executive Organization Act of 1973.

(b)        After taking the oath of office required for law enforcement officers, the special police officers authorized by this section shall have the authority of law enforcement officers generally to arrest and undertake other law enforcement activities. Within the territorial jurisdiction stated in subsection (a), the special police officers shall enforce the laws of North Carolina and any ordinances or regulations applicable to that territory adopted under authority of this Article or under G.S. 122-16 or 122-16.1 or under the authority granted any other agency of the State."

Sec. 2. The Butner Public Safety Department is transferred by a type I transfer, as defined in G.S. 143A-6, from the Department of Human Resources to the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. All transfers of personnel, equipment, appropriations, and functions shall be completed by September 1, 1981, but the Secretary of Crime Control and Public Safety shall have authority over the personnel, equipment, appropriations, and functions transferred by this section upon the effective date of this act.

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective July 1, 1981.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of June, 1981.