GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

CHAPTER 481

SENATE BILL 202

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE SENIOR RESIDENT SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE TO REQUIRE JUDICIAL OFFICIALS TO STATE THE REASONS FOR REQUIRING A SECURED BAIL BOND AS A CONDITION OF PRETRIAL RELEASE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 15A-534(b) is amended by changing the period at the end of the last sentence to a comma and adding the following:

"and must record the reasons for so doing in writing to the extent provided in the policies or requirements issued by the senior resident superior court judge pursuant to G.S. 15A-535(a)."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 15A-535(a) is amended by changing the period at the end to a comma and adding the following:

"and may include in such policies, or issue separately, a requirement that each judicial official who imposes condition (4) in G.S. 15A-534(a) must record the reasons for doing so in writing."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1987.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 25th day of June, 1987.