GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1997
SESSION LAW 1998-58
AN ACT TO ELIMINATE THE REQUIREMENT OF CERTIFIED MAIL NOTICE IN BOND FORFEITURE CASES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 15A-544(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b) If the principal does
not comply with the conditions of the bail bond, the court having jurisdiction
must enter an order declaring the bail to be forfeited. If forfeiture is
ordered by the court, a copy of the order of forfeiture and notice that
judgment will be entered upon the order after 60 days must be served on each
obligor. Service is to be made by the clerk mailing by certified mail,
return receipt requested, first-class mail a copy of the order of
forfeiture and notice to each obligor at each obligor's address as noted on the
bond and note on the original the date of mailing. Service is complete three
days after the mailing."
Section 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of July, 1998.
s/ Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
s/ Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor
Approved 10:55 a.m. this 24th day of July, 1998