NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 779

SENATE BILL 300

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 14-202.1 TO DELETE THE REQUIREMENT OF INTENT TO COMMIT AN UNNATURAL SEX ACT FROM THE CRIME OF TAKING INDECENT LIBERTIES WITH CHILDREN AND TO INCREASE THE PUNISHMENT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 14-202.1 is rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 14-202.1.  Taking indecent liberties with children. — (a) A person is guilty of taking indecent liberties with children if, being 16 years of age or more and at least five years older than the child in question, he either:

(1)        Wilfully takes or attempts to take any immoral, improper, or indecent liberties with any child of either sex under the age of 16 years for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire; or

(2)        Wilfully commits or attempts to commit any lewd or lascivious act upon or with the body or any part or member of the body of any child of either sex under the age of 16 years.

(b)        Taking indecent liberties with children is a felony punishable by a fine, imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on October 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1975.