A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to direct the department of justice and the wildlife resources commission to jointly develop a plan for construction of a firing range for use by criminal justice officers attending the western justice academy, law enforcement officers of the wildlife resources commission, and others.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Department of Justice and the Wildlife Resources Commission shall jointly develop a plan for the construction and operation of a firing range on land owned by the Wildlife Resources Commission in Henderson and Polk Counties. The plan shall provide for a firing range that can accommodate the needs of the criminal justice officers attending the Larry T. Justus Western Justice Academy, federal, State, and local agencies, community college law enforcement training, and the law enforcement officers of the Wildlife Resources Commission, as well as providing a facility for hunter safety classes supervised and conducted by the Wildlife Resources Commission.
SECTION 2.  Funds appropriated to the Department of Justice for the 2007‑2009 fiscal biennium for a firing range at the Western Justice Academy shall be used for planning and construction of the firing range developed by the plan mandated by Section 1 of this act.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.