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- Session laws and resolutions passed by the General Assembly [1977]
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- 1977
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Session laws and resolutions passed by the General Assembly [1977]
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Session Laws— 1977
CHAPTER 70
H. B. 119 CHAPTER 70
AN ACT TO RESTRUCTURE AND RENAME THE DEPARTMENT OF
MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS AS THE DEPARTMENT OF
GRIM E CONTROL AND PU BLIC SAFETY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
- CRIME AND SAFETY DEPARTMENT CREATED AND
CONSTITUTED
Section 1. A new Article 5A is added to G.S. Chapter 143B to read as
follows:
“ARTICLE 5 A.
“DEPARTMENT OF CRIME CONTROL AND PUBLIC SAFETY.
“PART 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS.
“§ 143B-256. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety— creation. —
There is hereby created and constituted a department to be known as the
‘Department of Crime Control and Public Safety', with the organization,
powers, and duties defined in Article 1 of this Chapter, except as modified in
this Article.
“§ 143B-256.1. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety— duties— It
shall be the duty of the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety to
provide assigned law enforcement and emergency services to protect the public
against crime and against natural and man-made disasters; to plan and direct a
coordinated effort by the law enforcement agencies of State government and to
insure maximum cooperation between State and local law enforcement agencies
in the fight against crime; to prepare annually a State plan lor the State’s
criminal justice system; to serve as the State’s chief coordinating agency to
control crime, to insure the safety of the public and to insure an effective and
efficient State criminal justice system; to have charge of investigations of
criminal matters particularly set forth in this Article and of such other crimes
and areas of concern in the criminal justice system as the Governor may direct;
to regularly patrol the highways of the State and enforce all laws and
regulations respecting travel and the use of vehicles upon the highways of the
State and all laws for the protection of the highways of the State; to provide
national guard troops trained by the State to federal standards; to insure the
preparation, coordination, and currency of military and civil preparedness plans
and the effective conduct of emergency operations by all participating agencies
to sustain life, and prevent, minimize, or remedy injury to persons and damage
to property resulting from disasters caused by enemy attack or other hostile
actions or from disasters due to natural or man-made causes; and to develop a
plan for a coordinated and integrated electronic communications system for
State government and cooperating local agencies, including coordination and
integration of existing electronic communications systems,
“§ 143B-256.2. Department of Crime Control and Public Safely— functions.—
(a) All functions, powers, duties and obligations heretofore vested in the
following subunits of the following departments are hereby transferred to and
vested in the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety:
(1)The National Guard, Department of Military and Veterans Affairs;
(2) Civil Preparedness, Department of Military and Veterans Affairs;
(3) State Civil Air Patrol, Department of Military and Veterans Affairs;
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