North Carolina § 15-53 - 1. Governor may offer rewards for information leading to arrest and conviction.

§ 15-53. 1. Governor may offer rewards for information leading to arrest and conviction.

When it shall appear to the Governor, upon satisfactory information furnished to the Governor, that a felony or other infamous crime has been committed within the State, whether the name or names of the person or persons suspected of committing the said crime be known or unknown, the Governor may issue a proclamation and therein offer an award [reward] not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), according to the nature of the case as, in the Governor's opinion, may be sufficient for the purpose, to be paid to anyone who shall provide information leading to the arrest and conviction of such person or persons. The proclamation shall be upon such terms as the Governor may deem proper, but it shall identify the felony or felonies and the authority to whom the information is to be delivered and shall state such other terms as the Governor may require under which the reward is payable. History (1967, c. 165, s. 2; 2013-276, s. 2.) Editor's Note. - The bracketed word "reward" was added by the editors, as the apparently intended term. Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2013-276, s. 2, effective July 18, 2013, in the first sentence, substituted "one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000)" for "ten thousand dollars ($10,000)," and made gender neutral changes.