NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 236
HOUSE BILL 168

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE JURISDICTION FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES OF THE MEMBERS OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF ELIZABETH CITY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. All policemen, city constables, city marshals or other law enforcement officers charged with the duty of making arrests or otherwise enforcing the criminal laws in the City of Elizabeth City in Pasquotank County are hereby authorized and empowered to execute such duties and powers which are now lawfully exercised within the corporate limits, relating to the enforcement of the criminal laws, including arrests, in all that territory embraced within one mile in all directions from the present corporate limits of said City of Elizabeth City, except where such area falls within the adjoining counties.
Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of April, 1961.