The Chief of Police and other police officers shall be appointed by the board of town commissioners [Aldermen] and said board may appoint persons who are not residents of the municipality to such positions. The police officers of the Town of Shallotte shall have full authority, when in hot pursuit of any person who is charged with the violation of any criminal offense within the municipality, to pursue such offender beyond the corporate limits of the town and as far as the line of an adjoining county and to arrest such offender; and the common law doctrine of hot pursuit shall be applicable to such offenses and such officers.
(S.L. 1947, c. 507, Sec. 4)
Statutory reference:
Territorial jurisdiction of police officers, see G.S. § 160A-286