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17251
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The North Carolina State Highway Patrol, which is the principal agency of the North Carolina for the enforcement of the automobile laws, is considered in relation to the Department of Motor Vehicles, personnel, and duties
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17252
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Blair discusses the duties and rights of local law enforcement in their authority to enforce automobile laws.
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17261
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North Carolina placed the primary election under state control in 1915--a great step in election history. Today the North Carolina election machinery is headed by a five-man State Board of Elections. Lewis discusses the logistics behind running primaries as the State gets ready for a new election year.
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17262
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The Democrats nominated new candidates to contest three of North Carolina's twelve Congressional seats in 1946. Two incumbents did not seek renomination; one incumbent was defeated. In the Fifth and Sixth Congressional Districts it took second primaries to confirm the incumbents.
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17263
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Recent confusion by juvenile judges has brought into light questions about where the North Carolina statues stand on the definition of \"when is a child not a child?\" Situations in which this questions can arise are numerous and jurisdiction is unanswered at this time.
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17264
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The 1946 edition of Municipalities and the Law in Action is a cross section view of the wheels and cogs of municipal government machines all over North Carolina.
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17265
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At its 48th annual meeting in Winston-Salem in August, the North Carolina Bar Association endorsed the plan for continuous legal institutes to keep North Carolina's lawyers abreast of the constant changes in the law.
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17266
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The law provides that public officials shall continue in office until their successors are elected and qualified. So, although the curtain has fallen on the election of hundreds of local, state, and federal officers, there remains to be performed the act as significant as the drama of the election: oath of office.
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17267
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The end of the war brought to an end gas and tire rationing, and an end of rationing brought to an all time high highway traffic fatalities. Acting to curb these increasing deaths, T. Boddie Ward, Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, moved to mobilized all the resources of his office to remove from the highways all causes of accidents. This has resulted in a traffic law enforcement school with instruction from the State Highway Patrol, the Institute of Government, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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17305
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Cochrane discusses the happenings of the 1947 North Carolina General Assembly such as the opposing philosophies on public spending and the fight for Speakership.
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17306
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The Institute of Government conducted a Criminal Investigation school designed for detectives to look at cases of rape, burglary, robbery, and murder, and standard methods for approach.
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17307
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Conducted by the Institute of Government in cooperation with the State Highway and Public Works Commission, individuals attended a series of workshops on traffic engineering problems for cities and the state of North Carolina.
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17308
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Sixteen mayors in sixteen North Carolina cities will award certificates to over 600 police officers who have completed a twelve week course of study in traffic law enforcement. Thus the first Institute of Government program of local police schools, planned and conducted in cooperation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and sponsored by the North Carolina Police Executives Association, will be completed.
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17309
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Chapter 413 of the Session Laws of 1945 authorized the town of Tarboro to issue bonds and levy taxes to build a hotel, subject to the approval of a majority of the qualified voters. All were approved with the exception of a plaintiff taxpayer who sued the town on the theory that the hotel was not of public purpose.
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17310
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When the Supreme Court of North Carolina ruled in 1944, in the case of State v. Emery, that ten men and two women did not constitute a jury of \"good and lawful men\" within the meaning of Article I, section 13 of the Constitution, it started something. It started the women of the State on a campaign to strike out the Constitution every remaining vestige of discrimination against their sex.
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