NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 87
SENATE BILL 31

AN ACT AUTHORIZING LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS IN HENDERSON AND TRANSYLVANIA COUNTIES TO EXERCISE ARREST POWERS THROUGHOUT AREA SERVED BY JOINT DRUG ENFORCEMENT UNIT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. If a unit of local government in Henderson and Transylvania counties establishes with another unit of local government an undertaking, as defined in G.S. 160A-460(1) of the North Carolina General Statutes, for the enforcement of the North Carolina Controlled Substances Act, a law enforcement officer employed by the unit may, when participating in the undertaking, exercise the powers of a peace officer, including arrest, search, and execution of process, anywhere that law enforcement officers of any of the participating units of local government could exercise those powers.
If a joint drug enforcement unit is established, the sheriff of each county in which the drug enforcement unit is operating shall have administrative control over the activities of the drug unit operating in his county, and every law enforcement officer participating in the drug enforcement unit shall be sworn as a deputy sheriff in the county in which he is exercising the powers of a law enforcement officer and shall be under the supervision, direction and control of the sheriff of said county.
Sec. 2. This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 31st day of March, 1975.