North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 15A. Criminal Procedure Act § 15A-1340.11. Definitions

(1) Active punishment.--A sentence in a criminal case that requires an offender to serve a sentence of imprisonment and is not suspended. Special probation, as defined in G.S. 15A-1351, is not an active punishment.

(2) Community punishment.--A sentence in a criminal case that does not include an active punishment, assignment to a local judicially managed accountability and recovery court, or special probation as defined in G.S. 15A-1351(a). It may include any one or more of the conditions set forth in G.S. 15A-1343(a1).

(3) Repealed by S.L. 2011-192, § 1(h), eff. Dec. 1, 2011.

(3a) Repealed by S.L. 2022-6, § 8.2(e), eff. March 17, 2022.

(4) Repealed by Law 1997, c. 57, § 2, eff. Dec. 1, 1997.

(4a) House arrest with electronic monitoring.--Probation in which the offender is required to remain at his or her residence. The court, in the sentencing order, may authorize the offender to leave the offender's residence for employment, counseling, a course of study, vocational training, or other specific purposes and may modify that authorization. The probation officer may authorize the offender to leave the offender's residence for specific purposes not authorized in the court order upon approval of the probation officer's supervisor. The offender shall be required to wear a device which permits the supervising agency to monitor the offender's compliance with the condition.

(5) Repealed by S.L. 2011-192, § 1(i), eff. Dec. 1, 2011.

(6) Intermediate punishment.--A sentence in a criminal case that places an offender on supervised probation. It may include local judicially managed accountability and recovery court, special probation as defined in G.S. 15A-1351(a), and one or more of the conditions set forth in G.S. 15A-1343(a1).

(6c) Local judicially managed accountability and recovery court program.--Local program in which offenders are required, as a condition of probation, to comply with the rules adopted for the program as provided for in Article 62 of Chapter 7A of the General Statutes and to report on a regular basis for a specified time to participate in any of the following:

(7) Prior conviction.--A person has a prior conviction when, on the date a criminal judgment is entered, the person being sentenced has been previously convicted of a crime in either:

(8) Repealed by S.L. 2011-192, § 1(j), eff. Dec. 1, 2011.