GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 47

SENATE BILL 120

 

AN ACT TO REVISE THE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE PAROLE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 15A-1371(h) and G.S. 15A-1380.2(h) are amended between the fourth and fifth paragraphs by adding a new paragraph to read:

"For purposes of subdivision (1), a person is considered to be serving his first active sentence the term of which exceeds one year if he

a.         was convicted or sentenced in the same session of court of multiple offenses arising from the same transaction or series of transactions,

b.         is serving an active sentence of at least one year for one of the multiple offenses described in sub-subdivision a., and

c.         had not received an active sentence of a least one year prior to being sentenced for the multiple offenses described in sub-subdivision a."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification and applies to all prisoners sentenced prior to, on, or after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of April, 1987.