GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 747

Short Title:  Assault On Law-Enforcement Animal.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Cocklereece; Capps, Clary, Culp, Eddins, Edwards, Hurley, Lemmond, K. Miller, Nichols, Rayfield, Reynolds, Sexton, Sharpe, and Snowden.

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Referred to:  Judiciary II.

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April 4, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO MAKE IT A CLASS 1 MISDEMEANOR TO TAUNT OR ASSAULT A LAW-ENFORCEMENT ANIMAL AND TO MAKE IT A FELONY TO SERIOUSLY INJURE OR KILL A LAW-ENFORCEMENT ANIMAL.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 14-163.1 reads as rewritten:
"§ 14-163.1.  Taunting, assaulting, injuring, or killing law-enforcement agency animal.
(a)	It is unlawful for any person willfully and maliciously to do or attempt to do any of the following to an animal maintained by any municipal, county, or State law-enforcement agency for use in the performance of the duties of the agency:  taunt, torment, tease, beat, kick, or strike the animal.  Any person who violates this subsection is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
(b)	Any person who knows or has reason to know that an animal is maintained by a law-enforcement agency for purposes such as investigation, detection of narcotics or explosives, or crowd control, and who willfully causes serious injury to or kills that animal is guilty of a Class I felony."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 1995, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.