GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

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HOUSE BILL 1443

Short Title:  No Prison Weights.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives R. Hunter; Beall, Black, Church, Crawford, Culpepper, Hightower, Hill, Hunt, Hurley, Lee, McCrary, Ramsey, Redwine, Rogers, Sutton, Wainwright, and Warner.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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June 3, 1996

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION FROM USING APPROPRIATED FUNDS TO PURCHASE EXERCISE EQUIPMENT FOR USE BY PRISONERS, TO PROHIBIT THE DEPARTMENT FROM OTHERWISE PROVIDING OR PERMITTING SUCH EQUIPMENT IN ANY OF ITS FACILITIES AND TO REQUIRE THAT THE DEPARTMENT DISPOSE OF EXISTING EQUIPMENT.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  No funds appropriated to the Department of Correction may be used to purchase exercise equipment for use by prisoners nor shall the Department otherwise provide or permit such equipment in any of its facilities.  For purposes of this act, "exercise equipment" means free weights and machines or devices that are designed for exercising parts of the human body by offering various amounts of resistance.  Any such equipment owned by the Department or located in any of its facilities shall be removed within 30 days of the effective date of this act.
Sec. 2.  The Department of Correction shall dispose of any equipment subject to this act in accordance with Article 3A, Chapter 143 of the General Statutes.  If the equipment is sold, the net proceeds of the sale shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Correction Inmate Welfare Fund.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.