NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 603

HOUSE BILL 1216

 

 

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE FRAUDULENT USE OF SPECIAL IDENTIFICATION CARDS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Article 2B of Chapter 20 is hereby amended by adding a new G.S. 20‑37.8 thereto to read as follows:

"§ 20-37.8.  Fraudulent use prohibited. — (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to use a false or fictitious name or give a false or fictitious address in any application for a special identification card or knowingly to make a false statement or knowingly conceal a material fact or otherwise commit a fraud in any such application or to obtain or possess more than one such card for a fraudulent purpose or knowingly to permit or allow another to commit any of the foregoing acts.

(b)        A violation of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on October 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of May, 1979.