A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to clarify types of nuisances wherein obscene or lewd matter or other conduct prohibited is involved.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 19‑1.2(1) reads as rewritten:
"§ 19‑1.2.  Types of nuisances.
The following are declared to be nuisances wherein obscene or lewd matter or other conduct prohibited in G.S. 19‑1(a) is involved:
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(1)	Any and every place in the State where lewd films are publicly exhibited as a predominant course of business, or possessed for the purpose of such exhibition;
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SECTION 2.  G.S. 19‑1.2(6) reads as rewritten:
"§ 19‑1.2.  Types of nuisances.
The following are declared to be nuisances wherein obscene or lewd matter or other conduct prohibited in G.S. 19‑1(a) is involved:
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(6)	Every place which is used for the purposes of lewdness, assignation, gambling, the illegal possession or sale of alcoholic beverages, the illegal possession or sale of controlled substances as defined in the North Carolina Controlled Substances Act, or prostitution, and every such place in or upon which acts of lewdness, assignation, gambling, the illegal possession or sale of alcoholic beverages, the illegal possession or sale of controlled substances as defined in the North Carolina Controlled Substances Act, or prostitution, are held or occur."
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2007, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.