2005 North Carolina Code - General Statutes § 148-12. Diagnostic and classification programs.

§ 148‑12.  Diagnostic and classification programs.

(a)       The Department of Correction shall, as soon as practicable, establish diagnostic centers to make social, medical, and psychological studies of persons committed to the Department.  Full diagnostic studies shall be made before initial classification in cases where such studies have not been made.

(b)       Repealed by Session Laws 1977, c. 711, s. 33.

(c)       Any prisoner confined in the State prison system while under a sentence of imprisonment imposed upon conviction of a felony shall be classified and treated as a convicted felon even if, before beginning service of the felony sentence, such prisoner has time remaining to be served in the State prison system on a sentence or sentences imposed upon conviction of a misdemeanor or misdemeanors. (1917, c. 278, s. 2; 1919, c. 191, s. 2; C.S., s. 7750; 1925, c. 163; 1933, c. 172, s. 18; 1955, c. 238, s. 5; 1959, c. 50; 1967, c. 996, s. 2; 1973, c. 1446, s. 27; 1977, c. 711, s. 33.)