GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

S	1 

SENATE BILL 616

Short Title:  Felony Assault/Law-Enforce. Animal.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senator Shaw.

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Referred to:  Judiciary I/Constitution

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April 10, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO MAKE IT A FELONY TO MAIM, TO SERIOUSLY INJURE, OR TO 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.  Injuring, maiming, or killing law-enforcement agency animal.
Any person who knows or has reason to know that an animal is used for law-enforcement purposes such as investigation, detection of narcotics or explosives, or crowd control, by any law-enforcement agency and who willfully and not in self defense, causes serious injury to, maims, 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.