A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to increase the PENALTY for cockfighting.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 14‑362 reads as rewritten:
"§ 14‑362.   Cockfighting.
A person who instigates, promotes, conducts, is employed at, allows property under his ownership or control to be used for, participates as a spectator at, or profits from an exhibition featuring the fighting of a cock is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. A second or subsequent violation shall be a Class H felony. A lease of property that is used or is intended to be used for an exhibition featuring the fighting of a cock 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."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2005, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.