NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 791

HOUSE BILL 1117

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 1286, SESSION LAWS 1973 (THE PRETRIAL CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT) TO AUTHORIZE CONTINUED USE OF PRETRIAL RELEASE PROGRAMS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 15A-535, as contained in 1974 Advance Legislative Services to the General Statutes of North Carolina, Pamphlet No. 6, is amended by redesignating the present text as G.S. 15A-535(a), and adding a new subsection to read as follows:

"(b)      In any county in which there is a pretrial release program, the senior resident superior court judge of the judicial district may, after consultation with the chief district court judge, order that defendants accepted by such program for supervision shall, with their consent, be released by judicial officials to supervision of such programs, and subject to its rules and regulations, in lieu of releasing the defendants on conditions (1), (2), or (3) of G.S. 15A‑534(a)."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective the same date that Chapter 1286, Session Laws 1973 becomes effective.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1975.