GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2005

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HOUSE BILL 888

Committee Substitute Favorable 3/31/05

 Senate Judiciary I Committee Substitute Adopted 8/10/05

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

March 24, 2005

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 21 misdemeanor. A second or subsequent violation shall be a Class H 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.