NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 151

SENATE BILL 77

AN ACT TO AMEND GENERAL STATUTES CHAPTER 7A, ARTICLE 36, RELATING TO ENTITLEMENT OF INDIGENTS TO COUNSEL.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 7A-451(a) is amended by rewriting subparagraph (1) to read as follows: "Any case in which imprisonment, or a fine of five hundred dollars ($500.00), or more, is likely to be adjudged;", and by rewriting subparagraph (4) to read as follows; "A hearing for revocation of probation, if confinement is likely to be adjudged as a result of the hearing;".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 7A-451(b) is amended by rewriting subparagraph (2) to read as follows; "A pretrial identification procedure which occurs after formal charges have been preferred and at which the presence of the indigent is required;".

Sec. 3.  G.S. 7A-457(a) is amended in line two by deleting "except one charged with a capital crime".

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of April, 1973.