NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 872
SENATE BILL 52

AN ACT TO REWRITE G.S. 74A-2 RELATING TO THE OATH, BOND, POWER AND AUTHORITY OF SPECIAL POLICE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 74A-2, as the same appears in the 1965 Replacement Volume of the General Statutes, is hereby rewritten in its entirety to read as follows:
"§ 74A-2.  Oath, Bond, Power and Authority of Special Police. (a) Every policeman so appointed shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the usual oath.
"(b)	Such policemen, while in the performance of the duties of their employment, shall severally possess all the powers of municipal and county police officers to make arrests for both felonies and misdemeanors:
(1)	Upon property owned by or in the possession and control of their respective employers; or
(2)	Upon property owned by or in the possession and control of any person or persons who shall have contracted with their employer or employers to provide security for protective services for such property; or
(3)	Upon any other premises while in hot pursuit of any person or persons for any offense committed upon property vested in subsections (1) and (2) above.
"(c)	Every policeman appointed under this Chapter shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, file in the Governor's office a bond in the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2500.00), payable to the State of North Carolina, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of his office. This bond may be in cash, or it may be executed by a surety company duly authorized to transact business in this State, or it may have at least two individual sureties, each owning real estate in this State and together having equities in such real estate over and above any encumbrances thereon equal in value to at least twice the amount of such bond: Provided, that where individual sureties are used, the sufficiency of each such surety must be passed upon and approved by the Clerk of the Superior Court of the county in which the surety resides.
"(d)	The limitations on the power to make arrests contained in subsections (1) (2) (3) of subsection (b) shall not be applicable to policemen appointed for any railroad company. Policemen appointed for railroad companies shall be required to post a bond in the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) in lieu of the bond required by subsection (c)."
Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of 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 9th day of June, 1965.