NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 342

HOUSE BILL 51

 

 

AN ACT TO MAKE THE WILFUL DAMAGING OF OCCUPIED PROPERTY BY THE USE OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES A FELONY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 14 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding thereto the following Section:

"Sec. 14-49.1.  Wilful Damage of Occupied Property. Any person who shall wilfully and maliciously damage or attempt to damage any dwelling, building, vehicle, real or personal property of any kind or nature, being at the time occupied by one or more other persons, by the use of nitroglycerine, dynamite, gunpower or other high explosive, shall be guilty of a felony, and on conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the State prison for not less than 10 years and not more than life."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be effective on and after the date of its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of May, 1967.