GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1987 SESSION
CHAPTER 122
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 20-187.2 reads as rewritten:
"§ 20-187.2. Badges and service side
arms of deceased or retiring members of State, city and county law-enforcement
agencies; revolvers of active members.-(a) Surviving
spouses, or in the event such members die unsurvived by a spouse, surviving
children of members of North Carolina State, city and county law-enforcement
agencies killed in the line of duty or who are members of such agencies at the
time of their deaths, and retiring members of such agencies shall receive upon
request and at no cost to them, the badge worn or carried by such deceased or
retiring member. The governing body of a law-enforcement agency may, in its
discretion, also award to a retiring member or surviving relatives as provided
herein, upon request, the service side arm of such deceased or retiring
members, at a price determined by such governing body, upon securing a permit
as required by G.S. 14-402 et seq. or 14-409.1 et seq., or without such permit
provided the revolver weapon shall have been rendered incapable
of being fired. Governing body shall mean for county and local alcohol beverage
control officers, the county or local board of alcoholic control; for all other
law-enforcement officers with jurisdiction limited to a municipality or town,
the city or town council; for all other law-enforcement officers with
countywide jurisdiction, the board of county commissioners; for all State
law-enforcement officers, the head of the department.
(b) Active members of
North Carolina State law-enforcement agencies, upon change of type of revolvers,
weapons, may purchase the revolver weapon worn or
carried by such member at a price which shall be the average yield to the State
from the sale of similar revolvers weapons during the preceding
year."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 1st day of May, 1987.