GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION

CHAPTER 486
SENATE BILL 934

AN ACT TO PERMIT COMMITMENT TO SATELLITE JAIL/WORK RELEASE UNITS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 15A-1353(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d)	Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when the sentencing court, with the consent of the person sentenced, orders that a person convicted of a misdemeanor be granted work release, the court may commit the person to a specific prison facility or local confinement facility or satellite jail/work release unit within the county of the sentencing court in order to facilitate the work release arrangement. When appropriate to facilitate the work release arrangement, the sentencing court may, with the consent of the sheriff or board of commissioners, commit the person to a specific local confinement facility or satellite jail/work release unit in another county, or, with the consent of the Department of Correction, commit the person to a specific prison facility in another county. The Department of Correction may transfer a prisoner committed to a specific prison facility to a different facility when necessary to alleviate overcrowding or for other administrative purposes."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 15A-1340.2(2) is rewritten to read:
"(2)	Jail - A jail is a local confinement facility maintained by a county as provided by G.S. 153A-218 or a district confinement facility maintained by two or more units of local government as provided by G.S. 153A-219.  For purposes of G.S. 15A-1355(c), a satellite jail/work release unit shall be considered a local confinement facility."
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 2nd day of July, 1991.

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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives