NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 1256
HOUSE BILL 1388

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF WARRANTS BY CERTAIN LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS OF THE INCORPORATED CITIES AND TOWNS IN SURRY COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Officers of the police department of any incorporated city or town in Surry, Robeson, Johnston, Orange, Caldwell, or Dare Counties, who are or may be designated as "desk officers" by the Chief of the Police Department of said city or town, are hereby authorized to issue warrants in criminal matters in the same manner, to the same extent, and under the same rules of law as are now or hereafter applicable to the issuance of such warrants by justices of the peace; provided, that no warrant so issued may be served by the issuing officer.
Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 26th day of June, 1963.