NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 309

HOUSE BILL 866

AN ACT TO REPEAL AN OBSOLETE PROVISION OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO PARDON OF PRISONERS.

Whereas, State prisoners are not committed to the custody of the Board of Transportation (formerly State Highway and Public Works Commission); and

Whereas, prisoners are now committed to the custody of the Department of Correction in which is located the Parole Commission, which has the responsibility for advising the Governor with respect to pardons and commutations and which has access to all prisoner records; and

Whereas, G.S. 147-22, as the same appears in the 1978 Replacement Edition of the General Statutes of North Carolina, is for the reasons stated above obsolete; Now, therefore.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 147-22, as the same appears in the 1978 Replacement Edition of the General Statutes of North Carolina, is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of May, 1981.