AN ACT to remove the sunset on the authorization for certain private correctional officers to use force and make arrests consistent with north carolina law.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 7 of S.L. 2001‑378 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 7. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to private correctional facilities and the employees of those correctional facilities constructed and contracted to be operated by the effective date of this  act."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of July, 2003.

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		 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

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		 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

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		 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2003