NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1099

HOUSE BILL 1105

 

 

AN ACT TO EMPOWER ANY PERSON AUTHORIZED TO ISSUE WARRANTS OF ARREST TO FIX AND TAKE BAIL.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 15-102 is hereby amended by rewriting said Section to read as follows:

"§ 15-102.  Officers Authorized to Take Bail, Before Imprisonment. Officers before whom persons charged with crime, but who have not been committed to prison by an authorized magistrate, may be brought, have power to fix and take bail as follows:

1.         Any Justice of the Supreme Court, or a Judge of a Superior Court, in all cases.

2.         Any Clerk of the Superior Court, any justice of the peace, any chief magistrate of any incorporated city or town, or any person authorized to issue warrants of arrest, in all cases of misdemeanor, and in all cases of felony not capital."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 15-103 is hereby amended by rewriting said Section to read as follows:

"§ 15-103.  Officers Authorized to Take Bail, After Imprisonment. Any Justice of the Supreme Court or any Judge of a Superior Court has power to fix and take bail for persons committed to prison charged with crime in all cases; any justice of the peace, any chief magistrate of any incorporated city or town, or any person authorized to issue warrants of arrest has the same power in all cases where the punishment is not capital."

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of June, 1963.