Bill Text: NC S124 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Shoot Gun Inside/To Incite Fear

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-19 - Ch. SL 2013-144 [S124 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2013-S124-Amended.html

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

S                                                                                                                                                    2

SENATE BILL 124

Judiciary I Committee Substitute Adopted 4/9/13

 

Short Title:        Shoot Gun Inside/To Incite Fear.		(Public)
Sponsors:
Referred to:

February 25, 2013

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to make it a criminal offense to discharge a firearm within an enclosure with the intent to incite fear.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Article 8 of Chapter 14 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:

"§ 14‑34.10.  Discharge firearm within enclosure to incite fear.

Unless covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, any person who willfully or wantonly discharges or attempts to discharge a firearm within any occupied building, structure, motor vehicle, or other conveyance, erection, or enclosure with the intent to incite fear in another shall be punished as a Class E felon."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2013, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.