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§14‑288.6.  Looting; trespass during emergency.

(a)        Any person whoenters upon the premises of another without legal justification when the usualsecurity of property is not effective due to the occurrence or aftermath ofriot, insurrection, invasion, storm, fire, explosion, flood, collapse, or otherdisaster or calamity is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor of trespass during anemergency.

(b)        Any person whocommits the crime of trespass during emergency and, without legaljustification, obtains or exerts control over, damages, ransacks, or destroysthe property of another is guilty of the felony of looting and shall bepunished as a Class H felon. (1969, c. 869, s. 1; 1979, c.760, s. 5; 1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1316, s. 47; 1981, c. 63, s. 1, c. 179, s. 14;1993, c. 539, ss. 191, 1227; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > North-carolina > Chapter_14 > GS_14-288_6

§14‑288.6.  Looting; trespass during emergency.

(a)        Any person whoenters upon the premises of another without legal justification when the usualsecurity of property is not effective due to the occurrence or aftermath ofriot, insurrection, invasion, storm, fire, explosion, flood, collapse, or otherdisaster or calamity is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor of trespass during anemergency.

(b)        Any person whocommits the crime of trespass during emergency and, without legaljustification, obtains or exerts control over, damages, ransacks, or destroysthe property of another is guilty of the felony of looting and shall bepunished as a Class H felon. (1969, c. 869, s. 1; 1979, c.760, s. 5; 1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1316, s. 47; 1981, c. 63, s. 1, c. 179, s. 14;1993, c. 539, ss. 191, 1227; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)


State Codes and Statutes

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > North-carolina > Chapter_14 > GS_14-288_6

§14‑288.6.  Looting; trespass during emergency.

(a)        Any person whoenters upon the premises of another without legal justification when the usualsecurity of property is not effective due to the occurrence or aftermath ofriot, insurrection, invasion, storm, fire, explosion, flood, collapse, or otherdisaster or calamity is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor of trespass during anemergency.

(b)        Any person whocommits the crime of trespass during emergency and, without legaljustification, obtains or exerts control over, damages, ransacks, or destroysthe property of another is guilty of the felony of looting and shall bepunished as a Class H felon. (1969, c. 869, s. 1; 1979, c.760, s. 5; 1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1316, s. 47; 1981, c. 63, s. 1, c. 179, s. 14;1993, c. 539, ss. 191, 1227; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)