GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

H	2 

HOUSE BILL 959
Committee Substitute Favorable 4/26/99

Short Title:  Cockfighting/Increase Penalty.	(Public)

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April 8, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PENALTY FOR AND EXPAND THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF COCKFIGHTING.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 14-362 reads as rewritten:
"§ 14-362.  Cock fighting.
(a)	A person who instigates, promotes, conducts, is employed at, provides a cock for, allows property under his ownership or control to be used for, participates as a spectator at, gambles on, or profits from an exhibition featuring the fighting of a cock is guilty of a Class H felony.  A lease of property that is used or is intended to be used for an exhibition featuring the fighting of a cock is void, and a lessor who knows this use is made or is intended to be made of his property is under a duty to evict the lessee immediately.
(b)	A person who owns, possesses, or trains a cock with the intent that the cock be used in an exhibition featuring the fighting of that cock is guilty of a Class H felony."
Section 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 1999, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.