A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to increase the criminal penalty for cutting, injuring, or removing another's timber resulting in damages that exceed One thousand dollars.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 14‑135 reads as rewritten:
"§ 14‑135.  Cutting, injuring, or removing another's timber.
(a)	If any person not being the bona fide owner thereof, shall knowingly and willfully cut down, injure or remove any standing, growing or fallen tree or log off the property of another, the person shall be  punished the same as in G.S. 14‑72."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2009, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.