NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 853

SENATE BILL 827

 

 

AN ACT MAKING THE BREAKING INTO PAPER CURRENCY-OPERATED DISPENSING MACHINES A FELONY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 14 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby amended by adding a section to be designated as G.S. 14-56.3 to read as follows:

"§ 14-56.3.  Breaking into paper currency machines. — Any person, who with intent to steal any monies therein forcibly breaks into any vending or dispensing machine or device which is operated or activated by the use, deposit or insertion of United States paper currency, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, but if such person has previously been convicted of violating this section, such person shall be guilty of a felony."

Sec. 2.  There shall be posted on the machines referred to in G.S. 14-56.3 a decal stating that it is a crime to break into paper currency machines.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of June, 1977.