GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 219

HOUSE BILL 400

 

AN ACT TO RESTRICT THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT'S ABILITY TO FORCE COUNTIES TO HOUSE FEDERAL PRISONERS IN THE COUNTY JAIL WITHOUT ADEQUATE FINANCIAL COMPENSATION AND SPACE CONSIDERATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 162-34 is rewritten to read:

"§ 162-34.  United States prisoners. - When a prisoner is delivered to the keeper of the county jail by the authority of the United States, such keeper shall receive and commit such prisoner if the jail has adequate and available housing space. The keeper of the county jail shall not be subject to any pains or penalties for refusal to receive and commit a federal prisoner. The United States shall reimburse the county for the incarceration of any federal prisoner at such rate as may be agreed upon between the county and the United States."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of April, 1983.