NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 804
SENATE BILL 319

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT FURNISHING INTOXICATING BEVERAGES TO INMATES OF MENTAL OR PENAL INSTITUTIONS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 14-258.1, as it appears in the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1B of the General Statutes of North Carolina, is hereby amended by adding a new subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b)	Any person who shall knowingly give or sell any intoxicating liquor to any inmate of any State mental or penal institution, or to any inmate of any local confinement facility, except for medical purposes as prescribed by a duly licensed physician; or any person who shall combine, confederate, conspire, procure, or procure another or others to give or sell any intoxicating liquor to any inmate of any such State institution or local confinement facility, except for medical purposes as prescribed by a duly licensed physician; or any person who shall bring into the buildings, grounds or other facilities of such institution any intoxicating liquor, except for medical purposes as prescribed by a duly licensed physician, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined or imprisoned, in the discretion of the court. If such person is an officer or employee of any institution of the State, such person shall be dismissed from office."
Sec. 2.  The present G.S. 14-258.1 is redesignated G.S. 14-258.1 subsection (a), and is amended by: Inserting after the words "penal institution," and before the words "or if any" on line 4, and after the words "penal institution," and before the words "any deadly weapon" on line 7, the following: "or local confinement facility," and by inserting after the words "of the State," and before the words "he shall be" on line 14, the following: "or of any local confinement facility,".
Sec. 3.  This act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1975.