GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	2 

SENATE BILL 561
House Committee Substitute Favorable 6/4/97

Short Title:  Company Police/Concealed Handguns.	(Public)

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April 1, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REMEDY THE INADVERTENT EXCLUSION OF DULY SWORN AND COMMISSIONED COMPANY POLICE OFFICERS FROM THE CONCEALED HANDGUN STATUTES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 74E-6(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c)	All Company Police. – Company police officers, while in the performance of their duties of employment, have the same powers as municipal and county police officers to make arrests for both felonies and misdemeanors and to charge for infractions on any of the following:
(1)	Real property owned by or in the possession and control of their employer.
(2)	Real property owned by or in the possession and control of a person who has contracted with the employer to provide on-site company police security personnel services for the property.
(3)	Any other real property while in continuous and immediate pursuit of a person for an offense committed upon property described in subdivisions (1) or (2) of this subsection.
Company police officers shall have, if duly authorized by the superior officer in charge, the authority to carry concealed weapons pursuant to and in conformity with G.S. 14-269(b)(5)."
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.