NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 341

SENATE BILL 361

AN ACT TO MAKE THE DISCHARGING OF A FIREARM INTO AN OCCUPIED DWELLING, BUILDING, SHELTER OR OTHER STRUCTURE A FELONY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Article 8 of Chapter 14 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new section immediately after the present Section 14-34 to be designated Section 14-34.1. and reading as follows:

"Sec. 14-34.1.  Assault by Discharging a Firearm into an Occupied Dwelling. Any person who shall willfully discharge any firearm into a dwelling, building, shelter, or other structure when someone is in the actual occupation of any part of said dwelling, building, shelter, or other structure at the time of the commission of such act shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than four (4) months nor more than ten (10) years."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Article are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of April, 1969.