NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 468

SENATE BILL 331

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 14-168.1 TO CREATE A CRIME OF FELONIOUS CONVERSION OF PROPERTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 14-168.1 is amended by adding at the end the following:

"If, however, the value of the property converted or secreted, or the proceeds thereof, is in excess of four hundred dollars ($400.00), every person so converting or secreting it is guilty of a felony. In all cases of doubt the jury shall, in the verdict, fix the value of the property converted or secreted."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective January 1, 1980.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of April, 1979.