GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION

CHAPTER 498
HOUSE BILL 115

AN ACT TO MAKE NOTE TAKING BY JURORS A DISCRETIONARY DECISION OF THE PRESIDING JUDGE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 15A-1228 reads as rewritten:
"§ 15A-1228.  Notes by the jury.
Except where the judge, on the judge's own motion or the motion of any party, directs otherwise, jurors may make notes and take them into the jury room during their deliberations.  "
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 1993, and applies to trials begun on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of July, 1993.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives