NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 524

HOUSE BILL 623

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PENALTY FOR ASSAULTS ON CERTAIN JUDICIAL OFFICIALS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 14-33(b) is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:

"(5)      assaults an officer of the North Carolina General Court of Justice while engaged in official judicial duties or on account of the performance of official judicial duties."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on October 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of May, 1979.