GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
HOUSE BILL 662
RATIFIED BILL
AN ACT to authorize counties thaT PROVIDE ELECTRONIC MONITORING FOR OFFENDERS to collect a fee to recover the actual costs of providing THAT monitoring.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Article 28 of Chapter 7A of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 7A-313.1. Fee for costs of electronic monitoring.
A county that provides the personnel, equipment, and other costs of providing electronic monitoring as a condition of an offender's bond or pretrial release may collect a fee from the offender that is the lesser of the amount of the jail fee authorized in G.S. 7A-313 or the actual cost of providing the electronic monitoring. A county may not collect a fee from an offender who is determined to be indigent and entitled to court-appointed counsel."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2011.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 17th day of June, 2011.
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Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
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Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives
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Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2011