NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 316

SENATE BILL 282

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 14 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO MAKE IT AN OFFENSE FOR AN INMATE TO POSSESS A WEAPON CAPABLE OF INFLICTING SERIOUS BODILY INJURY OR DEATH.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Article 33 of Chapter 14 of the General Statutes, as it presently appears in Volume 1B of the 1969 Replacement Volume of the General Statutes of North Carolina, is hereby amended by adding a new subsection 14-258.2 to read as follows:

"Any person while in the custody of the Division of Prisons, or any person under the custody of any local confinement facility, as defined in G.S. 153A-217, who shall have in his possession without permission or authorization a weapon capable of inflicting serious bodily injuries or death or who shall fabricate or create such a weapon from any source, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and any person who commits any assault with such weapon and thereby inflicts bodily injury or by the use of said weapon effects an escape or rescue from imprisonment shall be guilty of a felony punishable by a fine or imprisonment not to exceed 10 years."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of May, 1975.