NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1207

HOUSE BILL 1231

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE TEMPORARY DETENTION OF JUVENILES IN SPECIAL SECTIONS OF JAILS IN CERTAIN CASES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 110-30 as it appears in the 1966 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by inserting, immediately before the word "No" at the beginning thereof, the designation "(a)".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 110-30 is further amended by changing the period at the end of the first sentence thereof to a comma, and by inserting, after the comma, the following: "except as provided in subsection (b) of this Section."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 110-30 is further amended by adding a new subsection therein, immediately following subsection (a), as follows:

"(b)      When, in the opinion of the judge, there is sufficient need for secure restraint of a child, and when, in the opinion of the judge, there are no other adequate facilities available, the judge may order the temporary detention of the child in any section of a jail which is so arranged and maintained that, while in such section, the child cannot converse with, see or be seen by, inmates placed in the jail under provisions of law other than those provided by this Article."

Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.  This Act shall be effective on and after July 1, 1967.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of July, 1967.