GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

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HOUSE BILL 1411

Short Title:  Guilford/Outlaw Dog Fights.	(Local)

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Sponsors: Representatives Cocklereece; and Wood.

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Referred to:  Judiciary II.

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May 30, 1996

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROHIBIT AN EXHIBITION FEATURING A DOG FIGHT.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  A person who instigates, promotes, conducts, is employed at, provides a dog for, allows property under his ownership or control to be used for, or profits from an exhibition featuring the fighting or baiting of a dog is guilty of a Class I felony.  A lease of property that is used or is intended to be used for an exhibition featuring the fighting or baiting of a dog is void, and a lessor who knows this use is made or is intended to be made of his property is under a duty to evict the lessee immediately.
Sec. 2.  A person who owns, possesses, or trains a dog with the intent that the dog be used in an exhibition featuring the fighting or baiting of that dog is guilty of a Class I felony.
Sec. 3.  A person who participates as a spectator at an exhibition featuring the fighting or baiting of a dog is guilty of a Class I felony.
Sec. 4.  A person who commits an offense under Section 1 within three years after being convicted of an offense under this section is guilty of a Class I felony.
Sec. 5.  This act applies only to Guilford County.
Sec. 6.  This act becomes effective December 1, 1996, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.