NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 344

SENATE BILL 255

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 10 OF CHAPTER 15 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR CONTINUING BAIL BONDS IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Article 10 of Chapter 15 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new section to read as follows:

"G.S. 15-104.1.  Recognizances and appearance bonds conditioned upon the defendant's appearance throughout the division of the General Court of Justice. — (a) Whether or not a recognizance or appearance bond which authorizes the release of a defendant includes a condition which obligates the defendant to appear for hearing or trial from day to day and session to session until final judgment is entered in the trial divisions of the General Court of Justice, such condition shall be deemed to be included in every recognizance or appearance bond and shall be deemed to be a condition of the filing of every other type of recognizance. Within the meaning of this section, entry of judgment in the district court from which an appeal is taken shall not be considered a final judgment.

(b)        A recognizance or appearance bond or other type of recognizance previously set for a defendant may be increased or decreased, modified or discharged, at any time by a judge of any court of the General Court of Justice then having jurisdiction of the defendant."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of May, 1971.