NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 929

HOUSE BILL 1484

AN ACT TO REPUBLISH AND RELOCATE PROVISIONS OF PRESENT G.S. 90‑113.13 RELATING TO FURNISHING POISON, DEADLY WEAPONS, CARTRIDGES, OR AMMUNITION TO INMATES OF CHARITABLE OR PENAL INSTITUTIONS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Chapter 14 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is amended by adding after G.S. 14-258 thereof a new section to be designated G.S. 14-258.1 to read as follows:

"§ 14-258.1.  Furnishing poison, deadly weapons, cartridges, or ammunition to inmates of charitable or penal institutions. — If any person shall give or sell to any inmate of any charitable or penal institution, or if any person shall combine, confederate, conspire, aid, abet, solicit, urge, investigate, counsel, advise, encourage, attempt to procure, or procure another or others to give or sell to any inmate of any charitable or penal institution, any deadly weapon, or any cartridge or ammunition for firearms of any kind, or any narcotic, poison or poisonous substance, except upon the prescription of a physician, he shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined or imprisoned in the State's prison for not more than ten years in the discretion of the court; and if he be an officer or employee of any institution of the State, he shall be dismissed from his position or office."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of July, 1971.