A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO EXPAND THE OPTION FOR LARGE COUNTIES TO FUND AND PROVIDE LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICES IN UNINCORPORATED AREAS AND CONCERNING LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICES IN UNINCORPORATED AREAS OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 153A‑301(a)(10) reads as rewritten:
"§ 153A‑301.  Purposes for which districts may be established.
(a)	The board of commissioners of any county may define any number of service districts in order to finance, provide, or maintain for the districts one or more of the following services, facilities and functions in addition to or to a greater extent than those financed, provided or maintained for the entire county:
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(10)	Law enforcement if 	The population of the county is over 650,000 according to the most recent federal decennial census.
							"SECTION 2.  Section 1 of Chapter 1170 of the 1969 Session Laws, as amended by Section 4 of Chapter 714 of the 1979 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Section 1. Upon approval of the Board of Commissioners of Mecklenburg County all policemen of any municipality in the county shall thereafter be authorized and empowered to exercise throughout the portions of the unincorporated areas of the County of Mecklenburg designated by the county board of commissioners the same jurisdiction, authority, powers and rights, including arrest and service of criminal and civil process, which they are authorized by law to exercise within that municipality's corporate limits and shall have the privileges and immunities, including coverage under Worker's Compensation laws, which they now have within the municipality's corporate limits, provided that Mecklenburg County shall, prior to the exercise of any of said powers or authority, enter into an agreement setting forth the guidelines and procedures for implementation of this act with such municipality or municipalities; provided, however, the board of commissioners of the county may not authorize the police of one municipality to exercise law enforcement powers within another municipality's sphere of influence unless it has first offered that municipality the right to provide law enforcement services within its own sphere of influence on equivalent terms."
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective January 1, 2005.