GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2005

 

 

SESSION LAW 2006-179

SENATE BILL 488

 

 

AN ACT to increase the criminal penalty for simple assault or battery on a handicapped person.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  G.S. 14-32.1(f) reads as rewritten:

"(f)      Any person who commits a simple assault or battery upon a handicapped person is guilty of a Class 1 Class A1 misdemeanor."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2006, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 18th day of July, 2006.

 

 

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/ James B. Black

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 6:01 p.m. this 1st day of August, 2006