NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 266

HOUSE BILL 77

 

 

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT OBSTRUCTING THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BY PICKETING OR PARADING.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  A new section is added to General Statutes Chapter 14, Article 30 ("Obstructing Justice"), to read as follows:

"§ 14-225.1.  Picketing or parading. Any person who, with intent to interfere with, obstruct, or impede the administration of justice, or with intent to influence any justice or judge of the General Court of Justice, juror, witness, district attorney, assistant district attorney, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets, parades, or uses any sound truck or similar device within 300 feet of an exit from any building housing any court of the General Court of Justice, or within 300 feet of any building or residence occupied or used by such justice, judge, juror, witness, district attorney, assistant district attorney, or court officer, shall upon plea or conviction be guilty of a misdemeanor and imprisoned for not more than two years or fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1000), or both."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on July 1,1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of April, 1977.