NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 527

HOUSE BILL 783

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE APPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL CONSTABLES IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 1 of Chapter 151 of the General Statutes is amended by adding thereto the following:

"The Board of Commissioners for Mecklenburg County may appoint such additional constables in each township as it finds necessary for the prompt and orderly execution of the precepts, mandates and other process issued by the several justices of the peace and other competent authorities within Mecklenburg County. Such constables may be appointed for a period not exceeding two (2) years which is terminated on the first Monday in December of the next succeeding odd-numbered year."

Sec. 2. The provisions of this Act shall apply only to Mecklenburg County.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. 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 22nd day of May, 1963.