Tuesday, November 30, 2010

News Laws Taking Effect Dec 1st

The following new laws will take effect on December 1 in North Carolina:

Any person who is subject to a domestic violence protective order who enters or remains on the premises of a shelter where the protected party is residing shall be guilty
a Class H felony (increased from a Class A1 felony).

Drivers who cover any registration number, registration letter, or the State name on a registration plate, number on a year sticker, or number on a month sticker with any frame or transparent clear or color-tinted cover that makes the registration numbers, registration letters, the State name, or the numbers on the stickers illegible commits an infraction.  Fine is $100.00.  (Check your plate today!)
 

New policies have been enacted to fight fraud in the Medicaid health insurance program.
 
Susie's Law increases the penalty for maliciously killing an animal by intentional deprivation of necessary sustenance from a Class A1 misdemeanor to a class H felony. Additionally, the penalty for maliciously torturing, mutilating, maiming, cruelly beating, disfiguring, poisoning, or killing an animal is increased from a Class I felony to a Class H felony.
 

Video sweepstakes machines are banned.

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