GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1985 SESSION
CHAPTER 593
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE BLACK MOUNTAIN ADVANCEMENT CENTER FOR WOMEN AT BLACK MOUNTAIN.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. The Black Mountain Advancement Center for Women to be located at Black Mountain is established. This unit of the North Carolina Department of Correction shall be a satellite of the Correctional Center for Women at Raleigh and shall be governed by such rules and regulations as shall be imposed by the North Carolina Department of Correction.
Sec. 2. Notwithstanding G.S. 143-341(4)g. the grounds now occupied by the Black Mountain Regional Mental Retardation Center as described below and Building 3 are transferred from the Department of Human Resources to the Department of Correction. The legal description of those grounds is:
In Buncombe County, Black Mountain Township:
Beginning on an iron pin in Craigmont Road North 23° 35' East 104.0 from an iron pin, the corner of the Bussman Corp. Property; runs thence, leaving said road, the following courses and distances: North 32° 35' 30" East 100 ft. to an iron pin; North 41° 35' 36" East 50 ft. to an iron pin; North 50° 03' 30" 100 ft. to an iron pin; North 53° 35' 30" East 200 ft. to a pin; South 87° 24' 30" East to a concrete monument, a corner of Bussman Corp. Property; North 33° 45' East 474 ft.; North 13° 30' East to a point in the junction of roads; thence following the road an average course of South 76° 10' West 865 ft. to an iron pin in Craigmont Road; thence South 06° 30' West 235 ft. to a pin in Craigmont Road; thence continuing with the center of said road South 25° 35' West 570 ft. to the beginning; containing 7.54 acres, more or less.
The transfer of these grounds and Building 3 shall occur on or before July 1, 1986.
Sec. 3. The women to be housed in the Black Mountain Advancement Center for Women shall be minimum custody inmates. The Secretary of Correction shall, when appropriate, transfer minimum custody inmates to this unit who have relatives in Western North Carolina. However, the population at this facility shall not exceed 50 inmates.
Sec. 4. When the population exceeds 40 square feet of living space per inmate in any women's correctional facility, the Secretary may transfer inmates to another facility or implement emergency release options within his authority within 30 days.
Sec. 5. The Department of Correction may contract with the Department of Human Resources to provide medical services and food services at cost to the Black Mountain Advancement Center for Women.
Sec. 6. The State Board of Community Colleges shall provide appropriate educational and vocational training to the inmates of the Black Mountain Advancement Center for Women. The staff of the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center may assist in providing high school equivalency programs for the inmates.
Sec. 7. The Director of the Black Mountain Mental Retardation Center may allow inmates from the Black Mountain Advancement Center for Women who are qualified for positions in the Center to work in the Center on work release. The Director of the Black Mountain Mental Retardation Center may also allow inmates from the Black Mountain Advancement Center for Women to enroll in the health care programs offered at the Center and may grant certificates of completion to those inmates who satisfactorily finish the program.
Sec. 8. Nothing in this act shall obligate the General Assembly to appropriate funds to carry out its provisions.
Sec. 9. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of July, 1985.