NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 454

HOUSE BILL 770

 

 

AN ACT TO CLARIFY NONTESTIMONIAL IDENTIFICATION PROCEDURES IN JUVENILE CASES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 7A-596 is amended by deleting the punctuation "." from the first sentence and by replacing it with the phrase "unless the juvenile has been transferred to superior court for trial as an adult in which case procedures applicable to adults as set out in Articles 14 and 23 of Chapter 15A shall apply."

Sec. 2. G.S. 7A-597 is amended by deleting the phrase "or prior to trial in superior court where a case is transferred pursuant to Article 49 of this Chapter".

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective October 1, 1981.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of May, 1981.