NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1068

HOUSE BILL 1481

 

 

AN ACT TO DIRECT THE NORTH CAROLINA COURTS COMMISSION TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF ALLOWING SETTLEMENTS TO INDIVIDUALS FOR ERRONEOUS IMPRISONMENT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The North Carolina Courts Commission shall study the feasibility of the implementation of a program of reimbursements for persons who have served terms of imprisonment upon convictions which have subsequently been legally shown to be erroneous and whose innocence is established by the evidence.

Sec. 2.  The Commission shall report its findings and recommendations to the 1979 General Assembly, Second Session 1980.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.