GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 564

HOUSE BILL 947

 

AN ACT CONCERNING THE HARBORING OF INDIVIDUALS KNOWN TO BE THE SUBJECT OF OUTSTANDING WARRANTS FOR ARREST.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The caption to G.S. 14-259 is rewritten to read "Harboring or aiding certain persons".

Sec. 2.  The first paragraph of G.S. 14-259 is rewritten to read:

"It shall be unlawful for any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe, that any person has escaped from any prison, jail, reformatory, or from the criminal insane department of any State hospital, or from the custody of any peace officer who had such person in charge, or that such person is a convict or prisoner whose parole has been revoked, or that such person is a fugitive from justice or is otherwise the subject of an outstanding warrant for arrest or order of arrest, to conceal, hide, harbor, feed, clothe or otherwise aid and comfort in any manner to any such person. Fugitive from justice shall, for the purpose of this provision, mean any person who has fled from any other jurisdiction to avoid prosecution for a crime."

Sec. 3.  The last paragraph of G.S. 14-259 is amended by deleting the word "escapee" in both places where it appears and substituting the word "person" therefor.

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1983.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of June, 1983.