GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2009
SENATE BILL 1089
RATIFIED BILL
AN ACT to authorize probation officers to transfer low-risk misdemeanants with no special conditions to unsupervised probation.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 15A-1343(g) reads as rewritten:
"(g) Probation
Officer May Determine Payment Schedules.Schedules and May Transfer
Low-Risk Misdemeanants to Unsupervised Probation. - If a person placed on
supervised probation is required as a condition of that probation to pay any
moneys to the clerk of superior court, the court may delegate to a probation
officer the responsibility to determine the payment schedule. The court may
also authorize the probation officer to transfer the person to unsupervised
probation after all the moneys are paid to the clerk. If the probation officer
transfers a person to unsupervised probation, he must notify the clerk of that
action. In addition, a probation officer may transfer a misdemeanant from
supervised to unsupervised probation if the misdemeanant is not subject to any
special conditions and was placed on probation solely for the collection of
court-ordered payments, and the risk assessment shows the misdemeanant to be a
low-risk offender; however, such a transfer to unsupervised probation does not
relieve the misdemeanant of the obligation to continue making court-ordered
payments under the terms of the misdemeanant's probation."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th day of July, 2009.
s/ Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
s/ Joe Hackney
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved 10:43 a.m. this 10th day of July, 2009