GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

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HOUSE BILL 741

Short Title:  Use of Highway Patrol Name.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Miller; Bowman and Craven.
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Referred to:  Public Employees.
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March 20, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROHIBIT USE OF THE STATE HIGHWAY PATROL NAME IN SOLICITING ADVERTISEMENTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S 14-401.10 reads as rewritten:
"§ 14-401.10. Soliciting advertisements for official publications of law-enforcement officers' associations.
Every person, firm or corporation who solicits any advertisement to be published in any law-enforcement officers' association's official magazine, yearbook, or other official publication, shall disclose to the person so solicited, whether so requested or not, the name of the law-enforcement association for which such advertisement is solicited, together with written authority from the president or secretary of such association to solicit such advertising on its behalf.  
It shall be unlawful to use in any such solicitation the name ‘North Carolina Highway Patrol,' ‘State Trooper,' or any variation or combination of thereof, or to use the North Carolina Highway Patrol insignia, badge, uniform, or uniform part, equipment, paraphernalia, or any other item or facsimile thereof which is used by the North Carolina Highway Patrol.
Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00), imprisonment for not more than six months, or both."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.