NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 429

HOUSE BILL 269

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF CITATION QUOTAS BY THE STATE HIGHWAY PATROL.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Article 4 of Chapter 20 of the General Statutes is amended by adding G.S. 20-187.3 to read as follows:

"§ 20-187.3. Quotas prohibited. - The Secretary of Crime Control and Public Safety shall not make or permit to be made any order, rule, or regulation requiring the issuance of any minimum number of traffic citations, or ticket quotas, by any member or members of the State Highway Patrol. Pay and promotions of members of the Highway Patrol shall be based on their overall job performance and not on the basis of the volume of citations issued or arrests made."

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of May, 1981.