GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2009
SESSION LAW 2009-498
HOUSE BILL 209
AN ACT to add the offense of taking indecent liberties with a student to the list of sex offenses that require registration under the sex offender and public protection registration program, as recommended by the house select committee on sex offender issues.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 14-208.6(5) reads as rewritten:
"(5) "Sexually violent
offense" means a violation of G.S. 14-27.2 (first degree rape),
G.S. 14-27.2A (rape of a child; adult offender), G.S. 14-27.3 (second
degree rape), G.S. 14-27.4 (first degree sexual offense), G.S. 14-27.4A
(sex offense with a child; adult offender), G.S. 14-27.5 (second degree sexual
offense), G.S. 14-27.5A (sexual battery), G.S. 14-27.6 (attempted rape or
sexual offense), G.S. 14-27.7 (intercourse and sexual offense with certain
victims), G.S. 14-27.7A(a) (statutory rape or sexual offense of person who
is 13-, 14-, or 15-years-old where the defendant is at least six years older),
G.S. 14-43.13 (subjecting or maintaining a person for sexual servitude), G.S.
14-178 (incest between near relatives), G.S. 14-190.6 (employing or permitting
minor to assist in offenses against public morality and decency), G.S. 14-190.9(a1)
(felonious indecent exposure), G.S. 14-190.16 (first degree sexual exploitation
of a minor), G.S. 14-190.17 (second degree sexual exploitation of a minor),
G.S. 14-190.17A (third degree sexual exploitation of a minor), G.S. 14-190.18
(promoting prostitution of a minor), G.S. 14-190.19 (participating in the
prostitution of a minor), G.S. 14-202.1 (taking indecent liberties with
children), or G.S. 14-202.3 (Solicitation of child by computer or
certain other electronic devices to commit an unlawful sex act), G.S. 14-202.4(a)
(taking indecent liberties with a student), G.S. 14-318.4(a1) (parent
or caretaker commit or permit act of prostitution with or by a juvenile), or
G.S. 14-318.4(a2) (commission or allowing of sexual act upon a juvenile by
parent or guardian). The term also includes the following: a solicitation or
conspiracy to commit any of these offenses; aiding and abetting any of these
offenses."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2009, and applies to all persons convicted of a violation of G.S. 14-202.4 on or after that date, and to all persons released from a penal institution on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of August, 2009.
s/ Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ Joe Hackney
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved 3:09 p.m. this 26th day of August, 2009