NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 315

SENATE BILL 281

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 14 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO MAKE IT AN OFFENSE FOR AN INMATE TO TAKE HOSTAGES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Article 33 of Chapter 14 of the General Statutes, as it presently appears in the Volume 1B of the 1969 Replacement Volume of the General Statutes of North Carolina, is hereby amended by adding a new subsection 14-258.3 to read as follows:

"§ 14-258.3.  Any prisoner in the custody of the Department of Correction including persons in the custody of the Department of Correction pending trial, or appellate review, or for pre-sentence diagnostic evaluation; or any prisoner in the custody of any local confinement facility (as defined in G.S. 153A-217), or any person in the custody of any local confinement facility (as defined in G.S. 153A-217) pending trial or appellate review or for any lawful purpose; who by threats, coercion, intimidation or physical force takes, holds, or carries away any person, as hostage or otherwise, shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished as provided in G.S. 14-2. The provisions of this section apply to: (1) violations committed by any prisoner in the custody of the Department of Correction whether inside or outside of the facilities of the North Carolina Department of Correction; (2) violations committed by any prisoner or by any other person lawfully under the custody of any local confinement facility (as defined in G.S. 153A‑217) whether inside or outside the local confinement facilities (as defined in G.S. 153A‑217)."

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

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