NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 1309

HOUSE BILL 1684

AN ACT TO ALLOW CHOWAN, PERQUIMANS, RANDOLPH AND PASQUOTANK COUNTIES AND MUNICIPALITIES WITHIN THOSE COUNTIES TO HIRE OUT PRISONERS WHO ARE INCARCERATED FOR CIVIL CONTEMPT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 162-42 is amended by inserting between the phrase "misdemeanor," and the word "or" the following phrase:

"or upon being found in civil contempt,".

Sec. 2. This act applies only to Chowan County, P erquimans County, Randolph County, and Pasquotank County.

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective on July 1, 1980.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of June, 1980.