NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1413

SENATE BILL 1114

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 14-33 TO PROVIDE FOR GREATER PUNISHMENT FOR AN INMATE WHO COMMITS AN ASSAULT OR AN ASSAULT AND BATTERY ON A CORRECTIONAL OFFICER.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 14-33(b)(4) as the same appears in the 1973 Cumulative Supplement of Volume 1B of the General Statutes of North Carolina, is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"(4) Assaults a law enforcement officer or a custodial officer of the State Department of Correction, while the officer is discharging or attempting to discharge a duty of his office."

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.