GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION

SESSION LAW 1997-470
SENATE BILL 441

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT ALLOCATED TO SHERIFFS FROM THE FEES CHARGED FOR CONCEALED HANDGUN APPLICATIONS AND RENEWALS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 14-415.19(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	The permit fees assessed under this Article are payable to the sheriff.  The sheriff shall transmit the proceeds of these fees to the county finance officer to be remitted or credited by the county finance officer in accordance with the provisions of this subsection.  The permit fees are as follows:
Application fee 	$80.00
Renewal fee	$80.00
Duplicate permit fee	$15.00
The county finance officer shall remit forty-five dollars ($45.00) of each application or renewal fee to the North Carolina Department of Justice for the costs of State and federal criminal record checks performed in connection with processing applications and for the implementation of the provisions of this Article.  The remaining thirty-five dollars ($35.00) of each application or renewal fee shall be used by the sheriff to pay the costs of administering this Article and for other law enforcement purposes.  The county shall expend the restricted funds for these purposes only."
Section 2.  This act becomes effective September 1, 1997.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st day of August, 1997.
s/	Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives

s/	James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor

Approved 4:25 p.m. this 1st day of September, 1997