NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1967 SESSION

CHAPTER 165
HOUSE BILL 52

AN ACT To amend G.s. 15-53 to increase the amount of the reward which may be offered thereunder, and to add a new section providing for a reward for INFORMATION LEADING TO ARREST AND CONVICTION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 15-53 is hereby amended to increase the amount of reward which the Governor may offer thereunder by striking out of the said Section the words "four hundred" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "ten thousand".
Sec. 2.  A new Section is hereby added to Chapter 15 of the General Statutes to read as follows:
"§ 15-53.1.  Governor May Offer Rewards For Information Leading to Arrest and Conviction. When it shall appear to the Governor, upon satisfactory information furnished to him, that a felony or other infamous crime has been committed within the State, whether the name or names of the person or persons suspected of committing the said crime be known or unknown, the Governor may issue his proclamation and therein offer an award not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), according to the nature of the case as, in his opinion, may be sufficient for the purpose, to be paid to him who shall provide information leading to the arrest and conviction of such person or persons. The proclamation shall be upon such terms as the Governor may deem proper, but it shall identify the felony or felonies and the authority to whom the information is to be delivered and shall state such other terms as the Governor may require under which the reward is payable."
Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4.  This Act shall be effective on and after the date of its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of April, 1967.