NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 22

HOUSE BILL 120

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 148-33.1 PERTAINING TO THE SENTENCING, QUARTERING, AND CONTROL OF PRISONERS WITH WORK PRIVILEGES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 148-33.1(a) is amended to read as follows:

"(a)       Whenever a person is sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years to be served in the State prison system, the Secretary of the Department of Correction may authorize the Director of Prisons to grant work-release privileges to any such inmate as may be eligible for the program as hereinafter established. The Department of Correction, upon recommendation of the presiding judge, shall immediately issue temporary work release privileges to any inmate so recommended upon verification of employment or at such time after commitment to the Department of Correction as employment can be obtained and verified."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 148-33.1(b) as found in the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C, is amended to read as follows:

"(b)      The Parole Commission of this State may authorize the State Department of Correction to grant work-release privileges to any inmate of the State prison system serving a term of greater than five years: provided, that if the inmate thus being considered for work‑release privileges has not yet served a fourth of his sentence if determinate or a fourth of his minimum sentence if indeterminate, the Parole Commission shall not authorize the Department of Correction to grant him work–release privileges without considering the recommendations of the presiding judge of the court which imposed the sentence."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 148-33.1(d) as found in the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C is amended by deleting the second sentence therein.

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of February, 1975.