A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide campus police for a private elementary, middle, or high school in durham county.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Chapter 115C of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 115C‑47.1.  Campus law enforcement agencies.
(a)	A private elementary, middle, or high school may establish a campus law enforcement agency and employ campus police officers. These officers shall meet the requirements of Chapter 17C and Chapter 74G of the General Statutes, shall take the oath of office prescribed by Article VI, Section 7 of the Constitution, and shall have all the powers of law enforcement officers generally. The territorial jurisdiction of a campus police officer shall include all property owned or leased to the private school employing the officer.
(b)	For the purposes of this section, a "private school" is a qualified nonpublic school under G.S. 115C-555."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 132‑1.4(b)(3) reads as rewritten:
"(3)	"Public law enforcement agency" means a municipal police department, a county police department, a sheriff's department, a company police agency commissioned by the Attorney General pursuant to G.S. 74E‑1, et seq., a campus law enforcement agency, and any State or local agency, force, department, or unit responsible for investigating, preventing, or solving violations of the law."
SECTION 3.  This act shall apply to Durham County only.
SECTION 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.