NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 928

HOUSE BILL 430

 

 

AN ACT TO PERMIT LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS TO TRANSPORT RELEASED PERSONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. A new section is added to Chapter 15A of the General Statutes to read:

"§ 15A-504. Return of released person. - (a) Upon a magistrate's finding under G.S. 15A-51 1(c)(2) of no probable cause for a warrantless arrest, a law enforcement officer may return the person previously arrested and any other person accompanying him to the scene of the arrest.

(b)        No officer acting pursuant to this section may be held to answer in any civil or criminal action for injury to any person or damage to any property when damage results, whether directly or indirectly, from the actions of the person so released or transported.

(c)        Nothing in this section shall be construed to supersede the provisions of G.S. 122-65.11."

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of July, 1981.