NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

CHAPTER 71

HOUSE BILL 106

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 22 OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF RALEIGH (CHAPTER 1184 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1949, AS AMENDED) BY ADDING AT THE END THEREOF SUBSECTION (66) RELATING TO REWARDS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Section 22 of the Charter of the City of Raleigh (Chapter 1184 of the Session Laws of North Carolina, 1949, as amended) is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof subsection (66) stating:

"(66).  To offer and pay rewards in an amount not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person or persons who: (a) willfully takes, defaces, damages or destroys property, either personal or real; or (b) willfully injures or takes the life of any person in the City of Raleigh; or (c) commits any felony in the City of Raleigh.

The Council shall fix the terms, conditions and amounts of such rewards and shall be the sole judge as to those persons entitled to receive any rewards offered. Such rewards shall be paid only by order of the Council out of nontax revenues."

Sec. 2. In cases involving minors, the term "conviction" as used in Section 1 shall include any punishment administered by a Juvenile or District Court.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.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 21st day of March, 1967.