NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 755

HOUSE BILL 21

 

 

AN ACT TO MAKE SHOOTING INTO AN OCCUPIED BUILDING OR OTHER OCCUPIED ENCLOSURES WITH CERTAIN BARRELED WEAPONS A FELONY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 14-34.1 is rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 14-34.1. Discharging certain barreled weapons or a firearm into occupied property. - Any person who willfully or wantonly discharges or attempts to discharge:

(1)        any barreled weapon capable of discharging shot, bullets, pellets, or other missiles at a muzzle velocity of at least 600 feet per second; or

(2)        a firearm into any building, structure, vehicle, aircraft, watercraft, or other conveyance, device, equipment, erection, or enclosure while it is occupied is guilty of a Class H felony."

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1981.