GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

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HOUSE BILL 269

Short Title:        Concealed Handgun Permit Valid in Parks.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representatives Hilton, Burr, Cleveland, Gulley (Primary Sponsors);  Barnhart, Blackwood, Blust, Brown, Current, Dockham, Dollar, Folwell, Frye, Guice, Justus, McGee, Moore, Neumann, Samuelson, Setzer, Starnes, Steen, Tillis, and West.
Referred to:	Judiciary III, if favorable, Environment and Natural Resources.

February 24, 2009

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to allow a concealed handgun permitee to carry a HANDGUN in a park.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 14‑415.23 reads as rewritten:

"§ 14‑415.23.  Statewide uniformity.

It is the intent of the General Assembly to prescribe a uniform system for the regulation of legally carrying a concealed handgun. To insure uniformity, no political subdivisions, boards, or agencies of the State nor any county, city, municipality, municipal corporation, town, township, village, nor any department or agency thereof, may enact ordinances, rules, or regulations concerning legally carrying a concealed handgun. A unit of local government may adopt an ordinance to permit the posting of a prohibition against carrying a concealed handgun, in accordance with G.S. 14‑415.11(c), on local government buildings, their appurtenant premises, and parks.buildings and their appurtenant premises."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2009.