GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 258
SENATE BILL 616

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.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of June, 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