North Carolina § 148-23 - 2. Mobile phones prohibited on State correctional facilities premises.

§ 148-23. 2. Mobile phones prohibited on State correctional facilities premises.

Except as authorized by Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety policy, no person shall possess a mobile telephone or other wireless communications device on the premises of a State correctional facility. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, an employee or visitor may possess a mobile telephone or other wireless communications device within the confines of a motor vehicle located in a designated parking area of a correctional facility's premises if the mobile telephone or other wireless communications device remains in the vehicle and the vehicle is locked when the employee or visitor has exited the vehicle. History (2009-560, s. 2; 2011-145, s. 19.1(h); 2017-186, s. 2(ppppppp).) Cross References. - As to furnishing tobacco products or mobile phones to inmates, see G.S. 14-258.1. Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2009-560, s. 4, provides: "The Department of Correction [Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety] and local confinement facilities shall ensure that sufficient notice is provided to inmates, staff, and the public of the prohibitions and penalties established in this act through the posting of signs in prominent places at all State correctional facilities and local confinement facilities and any other measures the Department and local confinement facilities deem necessary to sufficiently publicize those prohibitions and penalties." Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2017-186, s. 2(ppppppp), effective December 1, 2017, inserted "and Juvenile Justice" in the first sentence of the section.