NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 681

HOUSE BILL 1022

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 148-45, RELATING TO ESCAPE BY CONDITIONALLY AND TEMPORARILY RELEASED PRISONERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  General Statute 148-45 is amended by designating the present Section as subsection (a) and by adding a new subsection (b) to read as follows: "(b). Any defendant convicted and in the custody of the North Carolina Prison Department and ordered or otherwise assigned to work under the Work-Release Program, G.S. 148-33.1, or any convicted defendant in the custody of the North Carolina Prison Department and on a temporary parole by permission of the State Board of Paroles or other authority of law, who shall fail to return to the custody of the North Carolina Prison Department, shall be guilty of the crime of escape and subject to the provisions of subsection (a) of this Section and shall be deemed an escapee.

For the purpose of this subsection, escape is defined to include, but is not restricted to, wilful failure to return to an appointed place and at an appointed time as ordered."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of June, 19G3.