GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 465

SENATE BILL 235

 

AN ACT TO REINSTATE THE FELONY CHARGE AND PUNISHMENT FOR SECOND ESCAPES AND TO CLARIFY A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER ESCAPE PROVISION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 148-45(b)(3) is amended by deleting the word "or" following the semicolon.

Sec. 2.  G.S. 148-45(b)(4) is amended by changing the period to a semicolon and adding thereafter the word "or".

Sec. 3.  G.S. 148-45(b) is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:

"(5)      Any person previously convicted of escaping or attempting to escape from the State prison system."

Sec. 4.  G.S. 148-45(g)(1) is amended by deleting from the first sentence the phrase:  "or any youthful offender granted relief under G.S. 148-49.1 et seq.,".

Sec. 5.  G.S. 148-45(e) is repealed.

Sec. 6.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1983.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1983.