GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

SENATE BILL 769
RATIFIED BILL

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."
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.

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	Dennis A. Wicker
	President of the Senate

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	James B. Black
	Speaker of the House of Representatives

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	James B. Hunt, Jr.
	Governor

Approved 	.m. this 	 day of 	, 19