NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 550

HOUSE BILL 471

 

 

AN ACT TO REWRITE G.S. 90-96(c) TO DELETE THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE CLERKS OF COURT FILE WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES THE NAMES OF ALL PEOPLE CONVICTED UNDER THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 90-96(c) is rewritten to read as follows:

"(c)       The clerk of superior court in each county in North Carolina shall, as soon as practicable after each term of court in his county, file with the Administrative Office of the Courts the names of those persons granted a conditional discharge under the provisions of this Article, and the Administrative Office of the Courts shall maintain a confidential file containing the names of persons granted conditional discharges. The information contained in the file shall be disclosed only to judges of the General Court of Justice of North Carolina for the purpose of ascertaining whether any person charged with an offense under this Article has been previously granted a conditional discharge."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective 30 days after ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of May, 1979.