GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2009
SESSION LAW 2009-317
HOUSE BILL 447
AN ACT to extend the exemption from statutory copy costs to prisoner legal services and other attorneys working under contract with the office of indigent defense services.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 7A-308(b1) reads as rewritten:
"(b1) The fees set forth in
subdivision (12) of subsection (a) of this section are not chargeable when
copies are requested by an attorney who has been appointed or who is under
contract with the Office of Indigent Defense Services to represent an
indigent person at State expense, if the request is made in connection with the
appointed case or the contract and during the duration of the appointment.
appointment or the contract."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th 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 5:41 p.m. this 17th day of July, 2009