NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 743

HOUSE BILL 1045

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS AMONG UNITS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT FOR THE USE OF COMMON CONFINEMENT FACILITIES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 153-53.7 is amended by designating the present paragraph as subsection (a) and adding at the end thereof subsection (b) as follows:

"Any two or more units of local government (county or municipal) may enter into service contracts with one another whereby one such unit may own and operate a local confinement facility or jail and the other unit or units may use such facility for the confinement of any or all persons that such unit or units may lawfully confine. Terms and conditions for such service contracts shall be those which the governing bodies of the contracting units may deem to be proper."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of June, 1969.