NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 456

HOUSE BILL 496

 

 

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE WITHHOLDING OF CERTAIN INFORMATION NECESSARY FOR SERVICE OF SUBPOENA UPON LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 1 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new Section immediately following G.S. 1-589, and immediately preceding G.S. 1-590, to be numbered G.S. 1-589.1, and to read as follows:

"§ 1-589.1.  When service of subpoena, or any other court process, is sought upon any law enforcement officer of the State or of any political subdivision thereof pursuant to the provisions of G.S. 1-589, or of any other statute, it shall be unlawful for any officer or employee of the agency by whom the officer sought to be served is employed willfully to withhold the address or telephone number of the officer sought to be served with subpoena or other process."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of May, 1967.