GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 176
HOUSE BILL 713

AN ACT TO PERMIT THE PERSONAL USE OF MATTHEWS POLICE CARS WITHIN SPECIFIC AREAS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 14-247 as made applicable to cities by G.S. 14-252 reads as rewritten:
"§ 14-247.  Private use of publicly owned vehicle.
(a)	It shall be unlawful for any officer, agent or employee of the State of North Carolina, or of any county or of any institution or agency of the State, to use for any private purpose whatsoever any motor vehicle of any type or description whatsoever belonging to the State, or to any county, or to any institution or agency of the State.  It is not a private purpose to drive a permanently assigned State-owned motor vehicle between one's official work station and one's home as provided in G.S. 143-341(8)i7a.
It shall be unlawful for any person to violate a rule or regulation adopted by the Department of Administration and approved by the Governor concerning the control of all state-owned passenger motor vehicles as provided in G.S. 143-341(8)i with the intent to defraud the State of North Carolina.
(b)	The governing body of a city or county may by ordinance set the geographical boundaries within which police officers may use marked police vehicles for personal use."
Sec. 2.  Section 1 of this act applies to the Town of Matthews only.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 5th day of June, 1995.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives