NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 807

HOUSE BILL 1068

AN ACT TO MAKE TECHNICAL CHANGES TO THE PRIVATE PROTECTIVE SERVICES ACT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 74C-3(b)(7) is repealed.

Sec. 2. G.S. 74C-3(a)(1) is amended by adding the following sentence at the end thereof:

"This definition does not include a person operating an armored car business pursuant to a motor carrier certificate or permit issued by the North Carolina Utilities Commission which grants operating rights for such business; however, armed armored car service guards shall be subject to the provisions of G.S. 74C-13."

Sec. 3. G.S. 74C-3(a)(4) is amended by adding the following sentence at the end thereof:

"This definition does not include a person operating a courier service business pursuant to a motor carrier certificate or permit issued by the North Carolina Utilities Commission which grants operating rights for such business; however, armed courier service guards shall be subject to the provisions of G.S. 74C-13."

Sec. 4. G.S. 74C-10(a) is rewritten as follows:

"(a)       An applicant for a license or a trainee permit shall not be issued such license or permit unless the applicant files with the board and maintains a surety bond executed by a surety company authorized to do business in this State in a sum of not less than five thousand dollars ($5,000) or a cash bond, in lieu of the surety bond in a sum of not less than five thousand dollars ($5,000), to protect the public from the wrongful or illegal acts of the bond principal or his agents operating in the course and scope of his agency. Only one bond shall be required of an applicant regardless of the number of licenses or trainee permits which he is issued under this Chapter."

Sec. 5. G.S. 74C-10(h) is amended by adding the following at the end thereof:

"No cancellation or refusal to renew by an insurer of a licensee under this Chapter shall be effective unless the insurer has given the insured licensee notice of the cancellation or refusal to renew. Upon termination of insurance coverage for said licensee, the insurer shall give notice to the Administrator of the Board."

Sec. 6. G.S. 74C-12 is amended on line 2 by deleting the words "notice and opportunity for hearing" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "compliance with Chapter 150A of the General Statutes."

Sec. 7. G.S. 74C-4(b) is amended by adding the following at the end thereof:

"Board members may continue to serve until their successors have been appointed."

Sec. 8. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 3rd day of July, 1981.