NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 450

HOUSE BILL 587

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 148 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO PERMIT NORTH CAROLINA SENTENCE TO BE SERVED IN ANOTHER JURISDICTION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 148-62 is amended by adding the following sentence at the end thereof:

"The commission's authority under this section shall apply to both in‑state and out‑of‑state parolees from sentences in this State."

Sec. 2.  Article 4A of Chapter 148 of the General Statutes, as it presently appears in the Volume 3C of the 1974 Replacement Volume of the General Statutes of North Carolina, is hereby amended by adding a new Section 148-65.3 to read as follows:

"§ 148-65.3.  North Carolina sentence to be served in another jurisdiction. — The Parole Commission, with the concurrence of the Secretary of Correction, may direct that the balance of any sentence imposed by the courts of this State shall be served concurrently with a sentence or sentences in another state or federal institution, and may effect a transfer of custody of such individual to the other jurisdiction for such purpose. In the event the individual's sentence liability in the other jurisdiction terminates prior to the expiration of his North Carolina sentence, the individual shall be either paroled (if eligible) or returned to the prison department of this State, in the discretion of the Parole Commission."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of June, 1975.