NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 828
HOUSE BILL 1249

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 1 OF CHAPTER 15 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES SO AS TO ALLOW RECEIPT OF CREDIT AGAINST A NORTH CAROLINA SENTENCE FOR TIME SERVED IN ANOTHER JURISDICTION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Article 1 of Chapter 15 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by the addition of a new section to be designated G.S. 15-6.3 to read as follows:
"§ 15-6.3.  Credit for service of sentence while in another jurisdiction. — When a person in actual confinement under sentence of another jurisdiction is brought for trial before a court of this State, the court may, upon sentencing, specifically impose a sentence to be concurrently served and direct that such person receive credit against the sentence imposed for all time subsequently served in the jurisdiction possessing physical custody of such person."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of July, 1971.