GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1989 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 994

HOUSE BILL 2288

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT BOTH FELONS AND MISDEMEANANTS SHALL BE ELIGIBLE FOR INTENSIVE PROBATION AND PAROLE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 143B-262(c) reads as rewritten:

"(c)      The Department shall establish within the Division of Adult Probation and Parole a program of Intensive Probation and Parole.  This program shall provide intensive supervision for probationers and parolees who require close supervision in order to remain in the community pursuant to a community penalties plan, community work plan, community restitution plan, or other plan of rehabilitation.  At least eighty percent (80%) of each intensive probation team's caseload shall be persons who have been convicted of a felony.  The intensive probation and parole program shall be available to both felons and misdemeanants."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 19th day of July, 1990.