NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 229

SENATE BILL 364

AN ACT TO INCLUDE IN THE DUTIES OF PROBATION OFFICERS A REQUIREMENT THAT THEY TAKE THEIR PROBATIONERS TO A PRISON UNIT EARLY IN THE TERM OF PROBATION IN ORDER THAT THE PROBATIONERS MIGHT HAVE A BETTER APPRECIATION OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF PROBATION REVOCATION AND TO PROVIDE THAT SUCH TOUR SHALL BE A CONDITION OF PROBATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 15-205 as the same presently appears in the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to the 1965 Replacement Volume 1C of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby amended to strike the period from the end of the sentence which presently is included therein as follows:

"Such officer shall use all practicable and suitable methods, not inconsistent with the conditions imposed by the Court, or the Secretary of Correction, to aid and encourage persons on probation to bring about improvement in their conduct and condition", to substitute a comma for the stricken period, and to follow the comma with the following language:

"and shall within the first 30 days of a person's probation take such person to a prison unit maintained by the Department of Correction for a tour thereof so that he may better appreciate the consequences of probation revocation."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 15-199 is hereby amended by adding a new subdivision "(15)" to read as follows:

"(15)    Within the first 30 days of his probation, visit, with his probation officer, a prison unit maintained by the Department of Correction for a tour thereof so that he may better appreciate the consequences of probation revocation."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective 60 days after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of May, 1975.