NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 684

HOUSE BILL 945

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 148-33.1 RELATING TO PRISONERS WITH WORK RELEASE PRIVILEGES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 148-33.1, subsection (f), as the same appears in the 1964 Replacement Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is amended by rewriting the second sentence to read as follows: "After deducting from the earnings of each prisoner an amount determined to be the cost of the prisoner's keep, the Prison Department shall retain to his credit such amount as seems necessary to accumulate a reasonable sum to be paid to him when he is paroled or discharged from prison, and shall make such disbursements from any balance of his earnings as may be found necessary by the Department for the following purposes, considered in a priority order as stated: (1) to pay travel and other expenses of the prisoner made necessary by his employment; (2) to provide a reasonable allowance to the prisoner for his incidental personal expenses; (3) to make payments for the support of the prisoner's dependents in accordance with an order of a court of competent jurisdiction, or in the absence of a court order, in accordance with a determination of dependency status and need made by the local department of public welfare in the county of North Carolina in which such dependents reside; (4) to comply with an order from any court of competent jurisdiction regarding the payment of an obligation of the prisoner in connection with any case before such court. In addition, the Prison Department in its discretion may grant a request made in writing by the prisoners for a withdrawal for any other purpose."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of June, 1967.