NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 837

SENATE BILL 768

AN ACT TO AMEND THE WORTHLESS CHECK STATUTE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Chapter 14 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is amended to add a new paragraph at the end of G.S. 14-107 to read as follows:

"(5)      In deciding to impose any sentence other than an active prison sentence, the sentencing judge may require, in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 15A-1343, restitution to the victim for the amount of the check or draft and each prosecuting witness (whether or not under subpoena) shall be entitled to a witness fee as provided by G.S. 7A-314 which shall be taxed as part of the cost and assessed to the defendant."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of June, 1979.