NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 408

HOUSE BILL 491

AN ACT TO REDEFINE THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN FELONY LARCENY AND MISDEMEANOR LARCENY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 14-72 is amended by deleting the phrase "$200.00" from the catchline thereof and substituting in lieu thereof the phrase "$400.00", and is further amended by deleting from subsection (a) the phrase "two hundred dollars ($200.00)" and substituting in lieu thereof the phrase "four hundred dollars ($400.00)".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 14-73 is amended by deleting the words "two hundred dollars" and substituting in lieu thereof the phrase "four hundred dollars ($400.00)".

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective on January 1, 1980, and applies to all crimes committed on or after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of April, 1979.