GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1983 SESSION
CHAPTER 375
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. Chapter 8 of the North Carolina General Statutes, as the same is found in Volume 1B of the General Statutes, 1981 Replacement, is amended by adding a new Article 14 to read as follows:
"ARTICLE 14.
"Chain of Custody.
"§ 8-100. Courier service and contract carriers. - For purposes of maintaining a chain of custody for any item of evidence, depositing the item with the State courier service operated by the Department of Administration or a common or contract carrier shall be considered the same as depositing such item in First Class United States Mail."
Sec. 2. G.S. 90-101(c)(2), as the same is found in the 1981 Supplement to Volume 2C of the General Statutes, 1981 Replacement, is amended by rewriting the first line to read:
"(2) The State courier service operated by the Department of Administration, a common or contract carrier, or a public warehouseman, or an".
Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of May, 1983.