GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 709

HOUSE BILL 604

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE STATUTES CONCERNING VARIOUS BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 148-26.1(1), 148-26.1(2), 148-26.1(3), 148-26.2, 148-26.3, and 148-26.4 are hereby repealed.

Sec. 2.  G.S. 143B-265 is amended by rewriting the third paragraph to read:

"The Board of Correction shall consist of one voting member from each of the 11 congressional districts, appointed by the Governor to serve at his pleasure. One member shall be a psychiatrist or a psychologist, one an attorney with experience in the criminal courts, one a judge in the General Court of Justice and eight members appointed at large. The Secretary of Correction shall be an additional nonvoting member and chairman ex officio. The terms of office of the nine members presently serving on the Board shall continue, but any vacancy occurring on or after July 1, 1983, shall be filled by the Governor in compliance with the requirement of membership from the various congressional districts."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 143B-267 is amended by deleting the following language from the first sentence thereof:  ", and the Secretary of Correction who shall serve as an ex officio, nonvoting member".

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1983.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of July, 1983.