NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 526

HOUSE BILL 952

 

 

AN ACT TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF ALTERING COURT DOCUMENTS OR ENTERING UNAUTHORIZED JUDGMENTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 14 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section thereto to read:

"§ 14-221.2.  Altering court documents or entering unauthorized judgments. — Any person who without lawful authority intentionally enters a judgment upon or materially alters or changes any criminal or civil process, criminal or civil pleading, or other official case record is guilty of a felony."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

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