NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 499

HOUSE BILL 988

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL AUTHORITY FOR THE PROTECTION OF STATE OFFICERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Chapter 114 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new Section 114-20.1 to read as follows:

"§ 114-20.1. Authority to designate areas for protection of public officials. - (a) The Attorney General is authorized to designate buildings and grounds which constitute temporary residences or temporary offices of any public official being protected under authority of G.S. 114-20, or any area that will be visited by any such official, a public building or facility during the time of such use.

(b)        The Attorney General or the Director of the State Bureau of Investigation may, with the consent of the official to be protected, make rules governing ingress to or egress from such buildings, grounds or areas designated under this section."

Sec. 2. G.S. 14-132(c) as it appears in Volume 1B of the General Statutes of North Carolina, 1969 Replacement, is amended by adding a new subparagraph (3) to read as follows:

"(3)      Designated by the Attorney General in accordance with G.S. 114-20.1."

Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of June, 1981.