NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1353

SENATE BILL 904

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 15-205.1 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO MANDATORY REVIEW OF PROBATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 15-205.1, as the same appears in the 1969 Cumulative Supplement of Volume 1C of the General Statutes is hereby amended and rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 15-205.1.  Mandatory review of probation. — It shall be the duty of the probation officer in all cases referred to him to bring the probationer before the appropriate court having jurisdiction for review by the judge to determine whether the probationer should be released from probation after the probationer has actually been on probation for three years if the period of probation was for more than three years. The court shall review the probationer's case file and determine whether he should be released from probation. This section shall not restrict the court's power to continue, extend, suspend or terminate the period of probation at any time as provided in G.S. 15-200."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of April, 1974.