GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 672
SENATE BILL 712

AN ACT TO CREATE A FELONY OFFENSE OF TRAFFICKING IN AMPHETAMINES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 90-95(h) is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(3a)	Any person who sells, manufactures, delivers, transports, or possesses 1,000 tablets, capsules or other dosage units, or the equivalent quantity, or more of amphetamine, its salts, optical isomers, and salts of its optical isomers or any mixture containing such substance, shall be guilty of a felony which felony shall be known as 'trafficking in amphetamine' and if the quantity of such substance or mixture involved:
a.	Is 1,000 or more dosage units, or equivalent quantity, but less than 5,000 dosage units, or equivalent quantity, such person shall be punished as a Class G felon and shall be sentenced to a term of at least seven years in the State's prison and shall be fined not less than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000);
b.	Is 5,000 or more dosage units, or equivalent quantity, but less than 10,000 dosage units, or equivalent quantity, such person shall be punished as a Class F felon and shall be sentenced to a term of at least 14 years in the State's prison and shall be fined not less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000);
c.	Is 10,000 or more dosage units, or equivalent quantity, such person shall be punished as a Class D felon and shall be sentenced to a term of at least 35 years in the  State's prison and shall be fined not less than two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000)."
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 25th day of July, 1989.