North Carolina § 7B-2103 - Authority to issue nontestimonial identification order where juvenile alleged to be delinquent.
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§ 7B-2103. Authority to issue nontestimonial identification order where juvenile alleged to be delinquent.
Except as provided in G.S. 7B-2102 or G.S. 15A-284.52(c1), nontestimonial identification procedures shall not be conducted on any juvenile without a court order issued pursuant to this Article unless the juvenile has been charged as an adult or transferred to superior court for trial as an adult in which case procedures applicable to adults, as set out in Articles 14 and 23 of Chapter 15A of the General Statutes, shall apply. A nontestimonial identification order authorized by this Article may be issued by any judge of the district court or of the superior court upon request of a prosecutor. As used in this Article, "nontestimonial identification" means identification by fingerprints, palm prints, footprints, measurements, blood specimens, urine specimens, saliva samples, hair samples, or other reasonable physical examination, handwriting exemplars, voice samples, photographs, and lineups or similar identification procedures requiring the presence of a juvenile. History (1979, c. 815, s. 1; 1981, c. 454, s. 1; 1998-202, s. 6; 2019-47, s. 1.) Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2019-47, s. 1, effective June 26, 2019, substituted "G.S. 7B-2102 or G.S. 15A-284.52(c1)" for "G.S. 7B-2102" in the first sentence of the section. Legal Periodicals. - For survey of 1979 family law, see 58 N.C.L. Rev. 1471 (1980).
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