GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2003

SESSION LAW 2004-71

HOUSE BILL 1728

AN ACT to authorize the lake royale police department to enforce the law on the waters of lake royale and to compete for grants for the purchase of law enforcement equipment.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.(a)  In addition to the powers granted to it by G.S. 74E-6(c), the Lake Royale Police Department has the powers granted by that subsection on all of the waters of Lake Royale and its shoreline area.

SECTION 1.(b)  In  performing duties relating to the enforcement of the laws on the waters of Lake Royale or in its shoreline area, an officer of the Lake Royale Police Department shall have such extraterritorial jurisdiction as may be necessary to perform the officer's duties. These duties include investigations of crimes an officer reasonably believes have been, or are about to be, committed within the area in question, and include:

(1)       Traversing by reasonable routes from one portion of this area to another, including across territory not within the boundaries of the waters of Lake Royale and its shoreline area;

(2)       Conducting prisoners in custody to a court or to detention facilities as may be authorized by law, although this may involve going outside the area in question; and

(3)       Continuing pursuit of and arresting any violator or suspected violator when the grounds for arrest arose within the area in question, except that this pursuit may not be conducted by virtue of this act beyond the boundaries of Franklin and Nash Counties.

SECTION 2.  The Lake Royale Police Department may participate in the process for the awarding of any grants for the purchase of law enforcement equipment for which the Department is eligible under the rules of the grant.

SECTION 3.  In consideration of the public service provided, a company police agency that is certified pursuant to Chapter 74E of the General Statutes and that has been given expanded jurisdiction and authority spanning at least two counties, may purchase gas, oil, and tires for their official vehicles and any other materials and supplies under State contract through the Department of Administration, and may purchase surplus property through the Department of Administration on the same basis as counties and municipalities. 

The Department of Administration shall make its services available to a company police agency meeting the above qualifications in the purchase of such supplies as provided in G.S. 143-49(6) and any rules adopted pursuant to that section. 

SECTION 4.  This act applies only to the Lake Royale Police Department serving the Lake Royale community in Franklin and Nash Counties.

SECTION 5.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 8^th day of July, 2004.

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/ Richard T. Morgan

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives