GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

 

 

SESSION LAW 2013-95

HOUSE BILL 25

 

 

AN ACT to amend the felony offense of Breaking or entering.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  G.S. 14-54 reads as rewritten:

"§ 14-54.  Breaking or entering buildings generally.

(a)        Any person who breaks or enters any building with intent to commit any felony or larceny therein shall be punished as a Class H felon.

(a1)      Any person who breaks or enters any building with intent to terrorize or injure an occupant of the building is guilty of a Class H felony.

(b)        Any person who wrongfully breaks or enters any building is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

(c)        As used in this section, "building" shall be construed to include any dwelling, dwelling house, uninhabited house, building under construction, building within the curtilage of a dwelling house, and any other structure designed to house or secure within it any activity or property."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2013, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of June, 2013.

 

 

                                                                    s/  Daniel J. Forest

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/  Thom Tillis

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/  Pat McCrory

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 4:29 p.m. this 12th day of June, 2013