GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

 

 

SESSION LAW 1999-107

SENATE BILL 769

 

 

AN ACT TO MODIFY THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF THE FELONY OFFENSE OF LARCENY OF GINSENG.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 14-79 reads as rewritten:

"§ 14-79.  Larceny of ginseng.

If any person shall take and carry away, or shall aid in taking or carrying away, any ginseng growing upon the lands of another person, with intent to steal the same, he shall be punished as a Class H felon:  Provided, that such ginseng, at the time the same is taken, shall be in beds and the land upon which such beds are located shall be surrounded by a lawful fence. felon."

Section 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 1999, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 17th day of May, 1999.

 

 

s/   Marc Basnight

President Pro Tempore of the Senate

 

 

s/   James B. Black

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

s/   James B. Hunt, Jr.

Governor

 

 

Approved 2:05 p.m. this 27th day of May, 1999