NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 535

SENATE BILL 138

AN ACT TO MAKE ASSAULT ON EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL A FELONY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 14-34.2 is rewritten to read:

"§ 14-34.2. Assault with a firearm or other deadly weapon upon law enforcement officer, fireman, or emergency medical services personnel. - Any person who commits an assault with a firearm or any other deadly weapon upon any:

(1)        law enforcement officer;

(2)        fireman; or

(3)        emergency medical services personnel certified to transport patients, including ambulance attendants, emergency medical technicians, emergency medical technician intermediates, and emergency medical technician paramedics, when responding to a call;

in the performance of his duties shall be guilty of a Class I felony."

Sec. 2. This act shall become effective October 1, 1981.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of June, 1981.