NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 437

HOUSE BILL 382

AN ACT TO MAKE IT UNLAWFUL TO BREAK OR ENTER OR BREAK OUT OF AN AIRCRAFT OR WATERCRAFT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 14-56 is rewritten to read:

"§ 14-56.  Breaking or entering into or breaking out of railroad cars, motor vehicles, trailers, aircraft, boats or other watercraft. — If any person, with intent to commit any felony or larceny therein, breaks or enters any railroad car, motor vehicle, trailer, aircraft, boat, or other watercraft of any kind, containing any goods, wares, freight, or other thing of value, or, after having committed any felony or larceny therein, breaks out of any railroad car, motor vehicle, trailer, aircraft, boat, or other watercraft of any kind containing any goods, wares, freight, or other thing of value, that person is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than five years. It is prima facie evidence that a person entered in violation of this section if he is found unlawfully in such a railroad car, motor vehicle, trailer, aircraft, boat, or other watercraft."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective January 1, 1980.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of April, 1979.