GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
HOUSE BILL 18
RATIFIED BILL
AN ACT to clarify the effective date for the law regarding the restoration of firearms rights and the law amending the felony firearms act to allow certain exceptions that are similar to those allowed under federal law, and to clarify that the information obtained pursuant to a criminal record check of a petitioner for the restoration of firearms rights shall be kept confidential but is not required to be kept in a separate confidential file.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Section 7 of S.L. 2010-108 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 7. G.S. 14-415.4(l)
as enacted by Section 1 of this act becomes effective February 1, 2011, and
applies to offenses committed on or after that date. Sec. 6 of this act is
effective when it becomes law. The remainder of the act becomes effective
February 1, 2011, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.2011.
Prosecutions for offenses committed before the effective date of this act are
not abated or affected by this act, and the statutes that would be applicable
but for this act remain applicable to those prosecutions."
SECTION 2. G.S. 114-19.28(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c) The State Bureau of Investigation
shall provide a copy of the information obtained pursuant to this section to
the clerk of superior court to be placed in a separate court, which
shall be kept confidential in the court file for the petition for
restoration of firearms rights."
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 2nd day of March, 2011.
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Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
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Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives
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Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2011