GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 305
HOUSE BILL 501

AN ACT TO CLARIFY THAT IT IS UNLAWFUL TO REPEATEDLY THREATEN OR HARASS ANY PERSON BY COMMUNICATIONS MADE BY MEANS OF A TELEPHONE ANSWERING MACHINE, TELEFACSIMILE MACHINE, OR COMPUTER MODEM.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 14-196(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	Any of the above offenses may be deemed to have been committed at either the place at which the telephone call or calls were made or at the place where the telephone call or calls were received.  For purposes of this section, the term 'telephonic communications' shall include communications made or received by way of a telephone answering machine or recorder, telefacsimile machine, or computer modem."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1989, and shall apply to offenses occurring on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 13th day of June, 1989.