GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2009
SENATE BILL 1089
RATIFIED BILL
AN ACT to authorize probation officers to transfer low‑risk misdemeanants with no special conditions to unsupervised probation.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 15A‑1343(g) reads as rewritten:
"(g) Probation Officer
May Determine Payment Schedules.Schedules and May Transfer Low‑Risk
Misdemeanants to Unsupervised Probation. – If a person placed on supervised
probation is required as a condition of that probation to pay any moneys to the
clerk of superior court, the court may delegate to a probation officer the
responsibility to determine the payment schedule. The court may also authorize
the probation officer to transfer the person to unsupervised probation after
all the moneys are paid to the clerk. If the probation officer transfers a
person to unsupervised probation, he must notify the clerk of that action. In
addition, a probation officer may transfer a misdemeanant from supervised to
unsupervised probation if the misdemeanant is not subject to any special
conditions and was placed on probation solely for the collection of court‑ordered
payments, and the risk assessment shows the misdemeanant to be a low-risk
offender; however, such a transfer to unsupervised probation does not relieve
the misdemeanant of the obligation to continue making court-ordered payments
under the terms of the misdemeanant's probation."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th day of July, 2009.
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Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
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Joe Hackney
Speaker of the House of Representatives
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Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2009