GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2005
SESSION LAW 2005-461
SENATE BILL 486
AN ACT to increase the penalty for discharging certain weapons into occupied property in certain circumstances.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 14-34.1 reads as rewritten:
"§ 14-34.1. Discharging certain barreled weapons or a firearm into occupied property.
(a) Any person who
willfully or wantonly discharges or attempts to discharge:
(1) Any discharge
any firearm or barreled weapon capable of discharging shot, bullets,
pellets, or other missiles at a muzzle velocity of at least 600 feet per second;
or
(2) A firearm
second into any building, structure, vehicle, aircraft, watercraft, or other conveyance, device, equipment, erection, or enclosure while it is occupied is guilty of a Class E felony.
(b) A person who willfully or wantonly discharges a weapon described in subsection (a) of this section into an occupied dwelling or into any occupied vehicle, aircraft, watercraft, or other conveyance that is in operation is guilty of a Class D felony.
(c) If a person violates this section and the violation results in serious bodily injury to any person, the person is guilty of a Class C felony."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2005, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of August, 2005.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Michael F. Easley
Governor
Approved 4:51 p.m. this 2nd day of October, 2005