GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 494
HOUSE BILL 72

AN ACT TO CRIMINALIZE INDECENT LIBERTIES BETWEEN CHILDREN.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Article 26 of Chapter 14 is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 14-202.2.  Indecent liberties between children.
(a)	A person who is under the age of 16 years is guilty of taking indecent liberties with children if the person either:
(1)	Willfully takes or attempts to take any immoral, improper, or indecent liberties with any child of either sex who is at least three years younger than the defendant for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire; or
(2)	Willfully commits or attempts to commit any lewd or lascivious act upon or with the body or any part or member of the body of any child of either sex who is at least three years younger than the defendant for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire.
(b)	Indecent liberties between minors is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 1995.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27th day of July, 1995.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives