When any crime is committed in the City of Oxford, Granville County, and the person or persons charged therewith flees or flee the city, any police officer of the municipality, either with or without process, is hereby given full authority to pursue the person or persons so charged, whether in sight or not, beyond the corporate limits of the city to any point within Granville County and to apprehend and arrest such person or persons anywhere within said county, provided the offense is committed in the presence of the pursuing officer or officers.
(Session Laws 1963, Ch. 971, Art. VIII, § 5)
Statutory reference:
Extra police jurisdiction, see G.S. § 160A-286
Editor's note:
Section 6 of Art. VIII of Ch. 971 of the 1963 Session
Laws, authorizing the issuance of warrants by police
officers was omitted inasmuch as a similar section
was declared unconstitutional by the State Supreme
Court.