GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	1 

SENATE BILL 102

Short Title:  Bomb Threat/Felony.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators McDaniel; Ballantine, Foxx, and Winner.

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Referred to:  Judiciary.

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February 12, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PENALTY FROM A MISDEMEANOR TO A CLASS I FELONY FOR THE OFFENSES OF FALSELY REPORTING THAT A BOMB OR OTHER DESTRUCTIVE DEVICE MAY EXPLODE AND PERPETUATING A HOAX BY USING A FALSE DESTRUCTIVE DEVICE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 14-69.1 reads as rewritten:  
"§ 14-69.1.  Making a false report concerning destructive device.
(a)	If any person shall, by any means of communication to any person or group of persons, make a report, knowing or having reason to know the same to be false, that there is located in any building, house or other structure whatsoever or any vehicle, aircraft, vessel or boat any device designed to destroy or damage the building, house or structure or vehicle, aircraft, vessel or boat by explosion, blasting or burning, he shall be guilty of a Class I felony.
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Section 2.  G.S. 14-69.2 reads as rewritten:  
"§ 14-69.2.  Perpetrating hoax by use of false bomb or other device.
(a)	If any person, with intent to perpetrate a hoax, shall secrete, place or display any device, machine, instrument or artifact, so as to cause any person reasonably to believe the same to be a bomb or other device capable of causing injury to persons or property, he shall be guilty of a Class I felony.
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Section 3.  This act becomes effective December 1, 1997, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.