NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1374

HOUSE BILL 2042

 

 

AN ACT TO DEFINE THE TERMS HOUSE AND BUILDING AS USED IN THE ARSON AND OTHER BURNINGS STATUTES TO INCLUDE MOBILE HOMES AND TO MAKE THE CRIME OF ARSON INCLUDE THE BURNING OF A MOBILE HOME.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 14, Article 15 of the General Statutes is amended by adding new subdivisions G.S. 14-69.3 and G.S. 14-69.4 as follows:

"§ 14-69.3.  As used in this Article, the terms house and building shall be defined to include mobile and manufactured type housing and recreational trailers.

"§ 14-69.4.  If any person shall willfully and maliciously burn any mobile home or manufactured type house or recreational trailer home which is the dwelling house of another and which is occupied at the time of the burning, the same shall constitute the crime of arson."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of April, 1974.