GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1985 SESSION

CHAPTER 321 
HOUSE BILL 909 

AN ACT TO PROTECT CERTAIN OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF COUNTY DEPARTMENTS OF SOCIAL SERVICES BY MAKING SIMPLE ASSAULTS ON THEM TWO-YEAR MISDEMEANORS. 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 14-33(b) is amended by changing the period at the end of subdivision (6) to a semicolon and adding the word "or" after that semicolon, and by adding a new subdivision to read: 
"(7)	Assaults one of the following officers or employees of a county department of social services when that officer or employee is discharging or attempting to discharge a duty of his office or employment: the director, an administrator or other person in a supervisory position, a social worker, an eligibility specialist, or a receptionist." 
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1985, and shall apply to offenses committed on or after that date. 
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of June, 1985.