NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 616

HOUSE BILL 621

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 14-269 TO AUTHORIZE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO REGULATE POSSESSION OF CONCEALED WEAPONS BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 14-269, as the same appears in the 1969 Replacement Volume 1B of the General Statutes, is amended on line 13 by inserting a comma after the word "duties" in lieu of the period and adding the following words: "provided, however, full-time sworn law enforcement officers may carry a concealed weapon when off-duty in jurisdiction where assigned if so authorized by written regulations of the law enforcement unit, which must be filed with the Clerk of Court in the county where the law enforcement unit is located, provided further, that no such regulation shall permit the carrying of a concealed weapon while the officer is consuming or under the influence of intoxicating liquor."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of June, 1977.