NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 15

HOUSE BILL 32

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 14-130 TO MAKE IT A MISDEMEANOR TO BUILD A BUILDING OR CUT TIMBER ON STATE-OWNED LANDS WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF THE STATE AND TO ALLOW THE STATE TO RECOVER THREE TIMES THE VALUE OF THE TIMBER WHICH IS CUT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S.  14-130 is rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 14-130. Trespass on public lands. — If any person shall erect a building on any State-owned lands, or cultivate or remove timber from any such lands, without the permission of the State, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Moreover, the State can recover from any person cutting timber on its land three times the value of the timber which is cut."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of February, 1979.