GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2005

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HOUSE DRH80191-LH-136  (3/10)

Short Title:     Cockfighting/Increase Penalty.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representative Allred.
Referred to:

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to increase the PENALTY for cockfighting.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 14‑362 reads as rewritten:

"§ 14‑362.  Cock fighting.Cockfighting.

A person who instigates, promotes, conducts, is employed at, allows property under his ownership or control to be used for, participates as a spectator at, or profits from an exhibition featuring the fighting of a cock is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.I felony. A lease of property that is used or is intended to be used for an exhibition featuring the fighting of a cock is void, and a lessor who knows this use is made or is intended to be made of his property is under a duty to evict the lessee immediately."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2005, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.