NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 542

SENATE BILL 324

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONFINEMENT OF PERSONS CONVICTED OF CRIMES IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION WHILE AWAITING JUDICIAL DETERMINATIONS OF APPEALS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 15-183 is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph as follows: "Any person who shall appeal to the Appellate Divisions of the General Court of Justice, having been sentenced to a term of imprisonment for longer than thirty days, and is not released pursuant to this section pending appeal, such person may be placed in the custody of the Commissioner of Correction until such time as he may be released upon bail or by other lawful means and pending the action of the Appellate Division."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification and shall apply to all persons who have appeals pending from and after ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of May, 1969.