NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 1134
SENATE BILL 677

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF JUVENILE PROBATION OFFICERS WHO WILL NOT BE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Whenever funds are made available for the purposes of this section, the chief district court judge of any district where family counselor services are not available may, in accordance with rules of the administrative offices of the courts, designate persons other than government employees to act as juvenile probation officers and chief juvenile probation officers, and such persons so designated shall have the same powers, duties, and responsibilities as juvenile probation officers and chief juvenile probation officers otherwise provided for by law.
Sec. 2.  This act shall be effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of July, 1971.