Current Status Bill Number:4354 Ratification Number:342 Act Number:304 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19960109 Primary Sponsor:Robinson All Sponsors:Robinson, Walker, Allison, D. Smith, Simrill, Kirsh Drafted Document Number:DKA\3370CM.96 Date Bill Passed both Bodies:19960328 Date of Last Amendment:19960321 Governor's Action:S Date of Governor's Action:19960506 Subject:Reserve police officers
Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ _______________________________________ _______ ____________ ------ 19960515 Act No. A304 ------ 19960506 Signed by Governor ------ 19960430 Ratified R342 House 19960328 Concurred in Senate amendment, enrolled for ratification Senate 19960326 Read third time, returned to House with amendment Senate 19960321 Amended, read second time Senate 19960320 Committee report: Favorable with 11 SJ amendment Senate 19960222 Introduced, read first time, 11 SJ referred to Committee House 19960221 Read third time, sent to Senate House 19960220 Amended, read second time House 19960214 Committee report: Favorable with 27 H3M amendment House 19960109 Introduced, read first time, 27 H3M referred to Committee House 19951213 Prefiled, referred to Committee 27 H3MView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
(A304, R342, H4354)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 23-28-20 AND 23-28-70, BOTH AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE APPOINTMENT OF RESERVE POLICE OFFICERS AND THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES, SO AS TO REQUIRE AN AUXILIARY AND A RESERVE POLICE OFFICER TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY A FULL-TIME CERTIFIED SOUTH CAROLINA POLICE OFFICER OR A DEPUTY SHERIFF UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, TO REQUIRE A RESERVE POLICE OFFICER TO BE IN PROXIMATE CONTACT WITH THE FULL-TIME OFFICER TO WHOM HE IS ASSIGNED, AND TO REQUIRE A CHIEF TO OBTAIN APPROVAL FROM CERTAIN OFFICIALS TO APPOINT RESERVE POLICE OFFICERS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Reserve and auxiliary police officers
SECTION 1. Section 23-28-70 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 85 of 1995, is further amended to read:
"Section 23-28-70. (A) Reserves shall serve and function as law enforcement officers only on specific orders and directions of the chief or sheriff. To maintain status, reserves shall maintain a minimum logged service time of twenty hours each month or sixty hours each quarter.
(B) Each reserve must be in proximate contact, by radio or another device, with the full-time officer to whom he is assigned.
(C) A person appointed as an auxiliary or reserve police officer after January 1, 1996, shall perform his duties while accompanied by a full-time, certified South Carolina police officer or deputy sheriff for a minimum of two hundred forty hours and receive the approval of the chief or sheriff before he may work as provided in subsection (B). Reserve or auxiliary officers serving before January 1, 1996, and who have at least two hundred forty hours of logged service time are exempt from this provision.
(D) Reserves shall not assume full-time duties of law enforcement officers without complying with all requirements for full-time officers.
(E) Each department utilizing reserves shall have one full-time officer as coordinator-supervisor who must be responsible directly to the chief or sheriff."
Reserve police officers
SECTION 2. Section 23-28-20(A) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 85 of 1995, is further amended to read:
"(A) The chief with the approval of the governing body or its chief operating officer or sheriff may appoint the number of reserve police officers as may be needed but not exceeding the number of regular full-time officers of his department. The number of full-time officers may not be decreased because of the institution or expansion of a reserve force. Each period of time reserves serve must be determined and specified by the chief or sheriff in writing. The powers and duties of reserves must be prescribed by the chief or sheriff and they are subject to removal by him at any time."
Time effective
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
Approved the 6th day of May, 1996.