GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

 

 

SESSION LAW 2013-144

SENATE BILL 124

 

 

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 F felon."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 13^th day of June, 2013.

 

 

                                                                    s/  Daniel J. Forest

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/  Thom Tillis

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/  Pat McCrory

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 4:25 p.m. this 19^th day of June, 2013