NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 716

SENATE BILL 820

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PUNISHMENT FOR EMBEZZLEMENT OF STATE PROPERTY BY PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 14-91 is rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 14-91.  Embezzlement of State property by public officers and employees. — If any officer, agent, or employee of the State, or other person having or holding in trust for the same any bonds issued by the State, or any security, or other property and effects of the same, shall embezzle or knowingly and wilfully misapply or convert the same to his own use, or otherwise wilfully or corruptly abuse such trust, such offender and all persons knowingly and wilfully aiding and abetting or otherwise assisting therein shall be guilty of a felony."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of May, 1979.