NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION
CHAPTER 1388
SENATE BILL 383
AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 14-163 AND G.S. 14-366 SO THAT THE DEATH DUE TO WILFUL POISONING OF LIVESTOCK WILL CONSTITUTE A FELONY PUNISHABLE UP TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON AND/OR A FINE IN THE DISCRETION OF THE COURT.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 14-163 is hereby rewritten to read as follows:
"§ 14-163. Poisoning livestock. — If any person shall wilfully and unlawfully poison any horse, mule, hog, sheep or other livestock, the property of another, such person shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than five years or by a fine in the discretion of the court, or both."
Sec. 2. This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of April, 1974.