NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1183

SENATE BILL 563

 

 

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT DEMONSTRATIONS, TRESPASSES OR OTHER UNLAWFUL USES OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Amend Article 22 of Chapter 14 of the General Statutes by inserting, immediately after Section 14-132 and immediately before Section 14-133, a new Section which shall be designated as "Section 14-132.1", and which new Section shall read as follows:

"Section 14-132.1.  Demonstrations or Assemblies of Persons Kneeling or Lying Down in Public Buildings Prohibited. If any person, persons, group or assembly of persons, after being forbidden to do so by the supervisor, keeper, custodian or person in charge of any public building of the State or of any county or municipality shall go or enter into such public building so owned by the State, county or municipality or shall enter upon the lands in or near any such public building and shall engage in sitting, kneeling, lying down or inclining so as to obstruct the ingress or egress of members of the public in the use of said building for normal business affairs or who shall congregate, assemble or by groups or formations, whether organized or unorganized, or by any method or manner whatsoever, so as to block or interfere with the customary, normal use of said building or the land or grounds in, around and adjacent to said building, such person or persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, plea of guilty or nolo contendere, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) or by imprisonment not to exceed thirty days, or both such fine or imprisonment.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1965.