NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 832

HOUSE BILL 1206

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 15A-274, ISSUANCE OF ORDER, AND G.S. 15A-277, SERVICE OF ORDER.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 15A-274 as the same appears in the 1975 Replacement Volume 1C of the General Statutes is hereby amended by rewriting the second sentence to read as follows:

"Unless the nature of the evidence sought makes it likely that delay will adversely affect its probative value, or when it appears likely that the person named in the order may destroy, alter, or modify the evidence sought or may not appear, the order must be served at least 72 hours before the time designated for the nontestimonial identification procedure."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 15A-277 as the same appears in the 1975 Replacement Volume 1C of the General Statutes is hereby amended by eliminating the period and adding "or when it appears likely that the person named in the order may destroy, alter, or modify the evidence sought, or may not appear."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of June, 1977.