North Carolina § 17C-2 - Definitions.

§ 17C-2. Definitions.

Unless the context clearly otherwise requires, the following definitions apply in this Article: Commission. - The North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission. Criminal justice agencies. - The State and local law-enforcement agencies, the State correctional agencies, other correctional agencies maintained by local governments, and the juvenile justice agencies, but shall not include deputy sheriffs, special deputy sheriffs, sheriffs' jailers, or other sheriffs' department personnel governed by the provisions of Chapter 17E of these General Statutes. Criminal justice officers. - The administrative and subordinate personnel of all the departments, agencies, units or entities comprising the criminal justice agencies who are sworn law-enforcement officers, both State and local, with the power of arrest; State correctional officers; State probation/parole officers; State probation/parole officers-surveillance; officers, supervisory and administrative personnel of local confinement facilities; State juvenile justice officers; chief court counselors; and juvenile court counselors. Entry level. - The initial appointment or employment of any person by a criminal justice agency, or any appointment or employment of a person previously employed by a criminal justice agency who has not been employed by a criminal justice agency for the 12-month period preceding this appointment or employment, or any appointment or employment of a previously certified criminal justice officer to a position which requires a different type of certification. History (1971, c. 963, s. 2; 1979, c. 763, s. 1; 1983, c. 558, s. 2; c. 745, s. 2; 1989, c. 757, s. 1; 1989 (Reg. Sess., 1990), c. 1024, s. 4(a); 1997-503, s. 2; 2001-490, s. 1.1; 2018-5, s. 17.1(a).) Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2001-490, s. 1.5, effective June 30, 2001, repealed Session Laws 2000-67, s. 17.3, which would have amended this section effective June 30, 2001, unless the Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission established and implemented by the convening of the 2001 General Assembly a new certification system for employees in the Department of Correction [Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety], as originally requested of the Commission in Session Laws 1999-237, s. 18.14, for implementation no later than July 1, 2000. A reference to "this Chapter" in this section was changed to "this Article" at the direction of the Revisor of Statutes.