NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 364

SENATE BILL 440

 

 

AN ACT TO REMOVE VIOLATION OF A THIRTY-DAY MISDEMEANOR AS GROUNDS FOR REVOCATION OF PROBATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 15-199 is amended by rewriting subdivision (13) to read as follows:

"(13)    Violate no penal law of any state or of the United States and be of general good behavior; however, probation may not be revoked solely for conviction of a misdemeanor unless it is punishable by imprisonment for more than thirty days;".

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on and after October 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of May, 1977.