GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

EXTRA SESSION 1994

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SENATE BILL 83

Short Title:  Juvenile Fingerprints/Photographs.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Winner of Buncombe.
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Referred to:  Courts.
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February 11, 1994

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REPEAL THE PROHIBITION ON PHOTOGRAPHING AND FINGERPRINTING SIXTEEN AND SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD JUVENILES UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE SUPERIOR COURT.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 15A-502 reads as rewritten:
"§ 15A-502.  Photographs and fingerprints.
(a)	A person charged with the commission of a felony or a misdemeanor may be photographed and his fingerprints may be taken for law-enforcement records only when he has been:
(1)	Arrested or committed to a detention facility, or
(2)	Committed to imprisonment upon conviction of a crime, or
(3)	Convicted of a felony.
It shall be the duty of the arresting law-enforcement agency to cause a person charged with the commission of a felony to be fingerprinted and to forward those fingerprints to the State Bureau of Investigation.
(b)	(Effective until January 1, 1995) This section does not authorize the taking of photographs or fingerprints when the offense charged is a misdemeanor under Chapter 20 of the General Statutes, 'Motor Vehicles,' for which the penalty authorized does not exceed a fine of five hundred dollars ($500.00), imprisonment for six months, or both.
(b)	(Effective January 1, 1995) This section does not authorize the taking of photographs or fingerprints when the offense charged is a Class 2 or 3 misdemeanor under Chapter 20 of the General Statutes, 'Motor Vehicles.' 
	(d)	This section does not prevent the taking of photographs, moving pictures, video or sound recordings, fingerprints, or the like to show a condition of intoxication or for other evidentiary use.
(e)	Fingerprints or photographs taken pursuant to subsection (a) may be forwarded to the State Bureau of Investigation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or other law-enforcement agencies."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.