GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 289

HOUSE BILL 472

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE DISPOSITION OF CONTRABAND CONFISCATED FROM PRISONERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Article 2 of Chapter 148 of the North Carolina General Statutes is amended by adding the following new section:

"§ 148-18.1.  Confiscation of unauthorized articles. - Any item of personal property which a prisoner in any correctional facility is prohibited from possessing by State law or which is not authorized by rules adopted by the Secretary of Correction shall, when found in the possession of a prisoner, be confiscated and destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the Secretary may direct. Any unauthorized funds confiscated under this section or funds from the sale of confiscated property shall be deposited to Inmate Welfare Fund maintained by the Department of Correction."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1983.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of May, 1983.