GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

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SENATE BILL 1032

Short Title:  Amend LEO Retirement Def'n/Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senator Shaw of Cumberland.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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April 21, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER FOR PURPOSES OF ELIGIBILITY FOR BENEFITS UNDER THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO CUMBERLAND COUNTY TO RECTIFY AN ERROR IN CERTAIN COUNTY EMPLOYEES' 401K PLANS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 128-21(11b) reads as rewritten:
"(11b)	'Law Enforcement Officer' means a full-time paid employee of an employer, who possesses the power of arrest, who has taken the law enforcement oath administered under the authority of the State as prescribed by G.S. 11-11, and who is certified under the provisions of Chapter 17C or Chapter 17E of the General Statutes."
Section 2.  G.S. 143-166.50(a)(3) reads as rewritten:
"(3)	'Law-enforcement officer' means a full-time paid employee of an employer, who possesses the power of arrest, who has taken the law enforcement oath administered under the authority of the State as prescribed by G.S. 11-11, and who is certified under the provisions of Chapter 17C or Chapter 17E of the General Statutes."
Section 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to Cumberland County the sum of two hundred twenty-six thousand dollars ($226,000) for the 1997-98 fiscal year to be used by the county for deposits to 401K plans of jailers who were erroneously reported as law enforcement officers prior to 1995.
Section 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1997, and applies to all persons enrolled in the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System on or after that date.