NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 1400

HOUSE BILL 426

AN ACT REGARDING SECURITY OVER PRISONERS DOING ROAD WORK.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 148-26(b) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"The Department of Correction and the Department of Transportation shall develop a program to be implemented no later than July 1, 1982, to the extent money is herein appropriated, which shall include:

(1)        the use of portable toilets for inmate road crews."

Sec. 2. There is appropriated from the Highway Fund to the Department of Transportation the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) for fiscal year 1982-83 to implement this act.

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective July 1, 1982.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1982.