NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 400
HOUSE BILL 789

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE EDUCATION AND TRAINING STANDARDS COMMISSION TO EXTEND PROBATIONARY CERTIFICATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 17C‑10(b), as the same appears in the 1979 Cumulative Supplement to the 1978 Replacement Volume 1C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding a sentence at the end of that subsection to read:
"If, however, a criminal justice officer has enrolled in a Commission approved preparatory program of training that concludes later than the end of the officer's probationary period, the Commission may extend, for good cause shown, the probationary period for a period not to exceed six months."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of May, 1981.