GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION

SESSION LAW 1997-501
HOUSE BILL 1132

AN ACT TO ADD CERTAIN DRUGS TO SCHEDULE IV OF THE LIST OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES, TO MAKE IT A CRIMINAL OFFENSE TO CONTAMINATE FOOD OR DRINK WITH ANY CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE THAT WOULD RENDER A PERSON MENTALLY INCAPACITATED OR PHYSICALLY HELPLESS, OR TO MANUFACTURE OR POSSESS SUCH A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE UNLESS IT IS FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 90-92(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Depressants. ‑ Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of the following substances, including its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers whenever the existence of such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation:
1.	Alprazolam.
2.	Barbital.
3.	Bromazepam.
4.	Camazepam.
5.	Chloral betaine.
6.	Chloral hydrate.
7.	Chlordiazepoxide.
8.	Clobazam.
9.	Clonazepam.
10.	Clorazepate.
11.	Clotiazepam.
12.	Cloxazolam.
13.	Delorazepam.
14.	Diazepam.
15.	Estazolam.
16.	Ethchlorvynol.
17.	Ethinamate.
18.	Ethyl loflazepate.
19.	Fludiazepam.
20.	Flunitrazepam.
21.	Flurazepam.
22a.	Gamma Hydroxybutyric Acid.
22.	Halazepam.
23.	Haloxazolam.
24.	Ketazolam.
25.	Loprazolam.
26.	Lorazepam.
27.	Lormetazepam.
28.	Mebutamate.
29.	Medazepam.
30.	Meprobamate.
31.	Methohexital.
32.	Methylphenobarbital (mephobarbital).
33.	Midazolam.
34.	Nimetazepam.
35.	Nitrazepam.
36.	Nordiazepam.
37.	Oxazepam.
38.	Oxazolam.
39.	Paraldehyde.
40.	Petrichloral.
41.	Phenobarbital.
42.	Pinazepam.
43.	Prazepam.
44.	Quazepam.
45.	Temazepam.
46.	Tetrazepam.
47.	Triazolam.
48.	Zolpidem."
Section 2.  Article 52 of Chapter 14 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 14-401.15.  Contaminate food or drink to render one mentally incapacitated or physically helpless.
(a)	It is unlawful knowingly to contaminate any food, drink, or other edible or potable substance with a controlled substance as defined in G.S. 90-87(5) that would render a person mentally incapacitated or physically helpless with the intent of causing another person to be mentally incapacitated or physically helpless.
(b)	It is unlawful knowingly to manufacture, sell, deliver, or possess with the intent to manufacture, sell, deliver, or possess a controlled substance as defined in G.S. 90-87(5) for the purpose of violating this section.
(c)	A violation of this section is a Class H felony.  However, if a person violates this section with the intent of committing an offense under G.S. 14-27.3 or G.S. 14-27.5, the violation is a Class G felony.
(d)	This act does not apply if the controlled substance added to the food, drink, or other edible or potable substance is done at the direction of a licensed physician as part of a medical procedure or treatment with the patient's consent."
Section 3.  This act becomes effective December 1, 1997, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 28th day of August, 1997.
s/	Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives

s/	James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor

Approved 4:30 p.m. this 11th day of September, 1997