GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

H	2

HOUSE BILL 870
Committee Substitute Favorable 4/22/97

Short Title:  Local Working of Prisoners.	(Local)

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April 7, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE ALAMANCE, BEAUFORT, CASWELL, CRAVEN, HYDE, PITT, AND ROCKINGHAM COUNTIES TO ARRANGE FOR THE WORKING OF NONVIOLENT MISDEMEANANTS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF EMPLOYEES OF ANOTHER UNIT OF STATE OR LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR EMPLOYEES OF A NONPROFIT, CHARITABLE CORPORATION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 162-58 reads as rewritten:
"§ 162-58.  Counties may work prisoners.
The board of commissioners of the several counties may enact by resolution all necessary rules and regulations for work on projects to benefit units of State or local government by persons convicted of crimes and imprisoned in the local confinement facilities or satellite jail/work release units of their respective counties.  The sheriff shall approve rules and regulations enacted by the board.  Prisoners working under this section shall be supervised by county employees or by the sheriff.
The board of county commissioners may also agree with units of State or local government or with nonprofit, charitable corporations to allow employees of those entities to supervise nonviolent misdemeanants in the custody of the county.  The agreement shall set forth the terms and conditions under which employees of the unit of State or local government or the nonprofit, charitable corporation will supervise county prisoners, and is subject to the approval of the sheriff.
The rules enacted by the board of county commissioners and approved by the sheriff shall specify a procedure for ensuring that county employees or employees of another unit of State or local government or a nonprofit, charitable corporation supervising prisoners pursuant to this section be provided with notice that the persons placed under their supervision are inmates from a local confinement facility or a satellite jail/work release unit."
Section 2.  This act applies only to Alamance, Beaufort, Caswell, Craven, Hyde, Pitt, and Rockingham Counties.
Section 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.