2009 North Carolina Code
Chapter 122C - Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Act of 1985.
§ 122C-414. Butner Fire and Police Commission.

Part 1D. Butner Commissions.

§ 122C‑414.  Butner Fire and Police Commission.

(a)        There is created a Butner Fire and Police Commission to consist of seven members, to be appointed in accordance with this section.

(b)        The Butner Fire and Police Commission shall consist of seven members, three appointed by the Town of Butner, two appointed by the Secretary, one appointed by the Secretary of Crime Control and Public Safety, and one appointed by the Granville County Board of Commissioners. All members appointed by the Town of Butner shall reside within the Town of Butner or its extraterritorial jurisdiction or the Butner Reservation. All members appointed by the Secretary or the Secretary of Crime Control and Public Safety shall either work at or have responsibility for one of the State‑run institutions located within the Butner Reservation or shall reside within the Town of Butner and its extraterritorial jurisdiction or the Butner Reservation. The Director of the Butner Public Safety Division of the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety shall serve as an ex officio member of the Butner Fire and Police Commission. No active member of the Butner Public Safety Division of the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety may serve on the Butner Fire and Police Commission.

(c)        The Butner Fire and Police Commission has the following duties and responsibilities:

(1)        To periodically review, and recommend changes to, the operational policy for the Butner Public Safety Division of the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety.

(2)        To consult with the Secretary of the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety in the Department's hiring of the Director of the Butner Public Safety Division of the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. Such consultation shall include, but not be limited to, the Commission reviewing and providing its comments to the Secretary of the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety on the credentials of the applicants for said position. In performing its functions under this subsection, the Commission members shall have the same access to the applicants' personnel records pursuant to Article 7, Chapter 126 of the General Statutes as the Secretary of the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety and shall be subject to the same restraints concerning the personnel information as set out in said article.

(3)        To review and make recommendations to the Secretary of Crime Control and Public Safety concerning the recommended needs of the Butner Public Safety Division of the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety.

(4)        To receive and forward citizen complaints received by the Commission concerning the Butner Public Safety Division of the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety to the Director of the Butner Public Safety Division of the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety and the Secretary of the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety as the Commission determines is appropriate.

(5)        To perform all such other functions assigned to it by the General Assembly or the Secretary of the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety.

(d)        The members of the Butner Fire and Police Commission shall be appointed within 30 days after the effective date of incorporation of the Town of Butner. One member appointed by the Town of Butner, one member appointed by the Secretary, and the member appointed by the Granville County Board of Commissioners shall serve an initial term of two years. The remainder of the members shall serve an initial term of four years. The beginning date of each initial term for the purpose of reappointment shall be September 1, 2007. Thereafter each member shall serve a term of four years. (2007‑269, s. 11.)