NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 1090
HOUSE BILL 615

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO PROVIDE FOR ONE HUNDRED ADDITIONAL STATE HIGHWAY PATROLMEN.

WHEREAS, 1576 persons were killed in highway accidents in North Carolina in 1964; and
WHEREAS, more than three-fourths of all traffic accidents involve a violation of the traffic laws; and
WHEREAS, one of the most effective ways of reducing traffic violations is through regular patrol of the highways and systematic enforcement of the motor vehicle laws; and
WHEREAS, the State Highway Patrol does not now have adequate personnel to regularly patrol the highways of this State in an effective manner; and
WHEREAS, a minimum of one hundred additional State Highway Patrolmen is necessary to provide the enforcement required to reduce highway fatalities and accompanying economic losses resulting from motor vehicle accidents; and
WHEREAS, there is no recommended appropriation to the Department of Motor Vehicles for any additional State Highway Patrolmen: Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  That the Department of Motor Vehicles is hereby authorized to add an additional one hundred patrolmen to its present force, fifty additional patrolmen to be added for the first year of the 1965-67 biennium and an additional fifty patrolmen for the second year of the 1965-67 biennium.
Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated from the Highway Fund to the Department of Motor Vehicles a sum of five hundred twenty-five thousand four hundred dollars ($525,400.00) for the first year of the 1965-67 biennium and the sum of nine hundred thirty nine thousand two hundred dollars ($939,200.00) for the second year of the 1965-67 biennium for the employment of one hundred additional State Highway Patrolmen during the 1965-67 biennium and to provide for the related expenses thereof.
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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 on and after July 1, 1965.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1965.