GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1987 SESSION

CHAPTER 479
HOUSE BILL 1182

AN ACT TO AMEND VARIOUS PROBATION LAWS BY EXTENDING THE AVAILABILITY OF INTENSIVE PROBATION TO MISDEMEANANTS AND ALLOWING FAILURE TO PERFORM COMMUNITY SERVICE WORK TO BE PUNISHED AS CIVIL CONTEMPT.

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.  This program shall provide intensive supervision for probationers 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."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 25th day of June, 1987.