1911_private laws_243_65
CHAPTER 242 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF RALEIGH, AND TO REPEAL ITS PRESENT CHARTER AND ALL LAWS IN CON- FLICT WITH THIS ACT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ORGANIZATION,
The board of commissioners of the city of Raleigh shall make rules and regulations for the government and direction of the police of the city. In times of exigency the commissoner of public safety may appoint, temporarily, such additional policemen as shall be necessary, who shall take the same oath and be vested with the powers and subject to the same control as regular policemen. The board of commissioners of said city shall require the entire police force to wear badges, and to be so armed and uniformed as to be readily recognized by the public as peace officers: Provided, that the commissioner of public safety, when he deems it necessary, may authorize such officer to be on duty in plain clothes. The police of the city shall have power to do whatever may be necessary to preserve the good order and peace of the city, and secure the inhabitants from personal violence and their property from loss or injury.