GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

H	2 

HOUSE BILL 1411
Committee Substitute Favorable 6/20/96

Short Title:  Outlaw Dog Fights.	(Local)

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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 H felony.
Sec. 5.  This act applies only to Brunswick, Cleveland, Duplin, Durham, Gaston, Guilford, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow, Polk, Rutherford, Union, Wake, and Wayne Counties.
Sec. 6.  This act becomes effective January 1, 1997, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.