GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION

S. L. 1997-143
SENATE BILL 409

AN ACT TO PERMIT AIRPORT LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO ENTER COOPERATION AGREEMENTS WITH OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 160A-288(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d)	For purposes of this section, the following shall be considered the equivalent of a municipal police department:
(1)	Campus law-enforcement agencies established pursuant to G.S. 116-40.5(a); and
(2)	Colleges or universities which are licensed, or exempted from licensure, by G.S. 116-15 and which employ company police officers commissioned by the Attorney General pursuant to Chapter 74E; and
(3)	Law enforcement agencies operated or eligible to be operated by a municipality pursuant to G.S. 63-53(2)."
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27th day of May, 1997.
s/	Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives

s/	James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor

Approved 3:36 p.m. this 4th day of June, 1997