GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

H	2 

HOUSE BILL 1049
Committee Substitute Favorable 6/8/93

Short Title:  Assault Company/Campus Police.	(Public)
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April 19, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ASSAULTS ON GOVERNMENTAL OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES TO INCLUDE COMPANY POLICE OFFICERS AND CAMPUS POLICE OFFICERS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 14-33(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	Unless his conduct is covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, any person who commits any assault, assault and battery, or affray is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine, imprisonment for not more than two years, or both such fine and imprisonment if, in the course of the assault, assault and battery, or affray, he:
(1)	Inflicts, or attempts to inflict, serious injury upon another person or uses a deadly weapon; or
(2)	Assaults a female, he being a male person at least 18 years of age; or
(3)	Assaults a child under the age of 12 years; or
(4)	to (7).  Repealed by Session Laws 1991, c. 525, s. 1.
(8)	Assaults an officer or employee of the State or of any political subdivision of the State, a company police officer certified pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 74E of the General Statutes, or a campus police officer certified pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 17C or Chapter 116 of the General Statutes, when the officer or employee is discharging or attempting to discharge his official duties."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 14-34.2 reads as rewritten:
"§ 14-34.2.  Assault with a firearm or other deadly weapon upon governmental officers or employees, company police officers, or campus police officers.
Any person who commits an assault with a firearm or any other deadly weapon upon an officer or employee of the State or of any political subdivision of the State, a company police officer certified pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 74E of the General Statutes, or a campus police officer certified pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 17C or Chapter 116 of the General Statutes, in the performance of his duties shall be guilty of a Class I felony."
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective December 1, 1993, and applies to offenses occurring on or after that date.