Bill Summary for S 58 (2023-2024)

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Feb 28 2023

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View NCGA Bill Details2023-2024 Session
Senate Bill 58 (Public) Filed Wednesday, February 1, 2023
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PUNISHMENT FOR PROPERTY CRIMES COMMITTED AGAINST UTILITIES, INCLUDING FACILITIES INVOLVED IN THE TRANSMISSION OF TELEPHONE, BROADBAND, BROADCAST, OR CABLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES AND FACILITIES INVOLVED IN THE PRODUCTION, STORAGE, TRANSMISSION, OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRICITY, FUEL, OR ANOTHER FORM OR SOURCE OF ENERGY.
Intro. by McInnis, Britt, P. Newton.

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Senate committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes. Changes the act’s long title. Amends the definition of energy facility as it is used in new GS 14-150.2 to make organizational changes and to clarify the scope of energy facilities involved in research, development, or demonstration. Adds that the term also includes any facility in operation, under construction, or otherwise not functioning. Amends the punishment subsection of GS 14-150.2 by adding that any violation of the act that results in the death of another is a Class B2 felony.

Adds facilities owned by a public utility as defined under state public utilities law (GS 62-3) or a unit of local government used for the treatment of wastewater, including sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes of a liquid nature as one of the qualifying facilities to establish a violation of GS 14-159.12 as a Class I felony if the act is committed on its premises. 

Amends GS 62-323 (pertaining to willful injury to the property of a public utility) as follows. Specifies that violations of GS 62-323 are a Class C felony. (Currently, Class 1 misdemeanor.) Makes language gender neutral. Makes conforming organizational changes to the act.