GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S 2
SENATE BILL 254
Judiciary Committee Substitute Adopted 4/1/25
Short Title: Establish Offense for Poss. of Explosive. (Public)
Sponsors:
Referred to:
March 11, 2025
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A CRIMINAL OFFENSE F OR POSSESSING CERTAI N 2
EXPLOSIVE OR INCENDIARY DEVICES OR MATERIAL. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. G.S. 14-49 reads as rewritten: 5
"§ 14-49. Malicious use of explosive or incendiary; punishment. 6
(a) Any person who willfully and maliciously injures another by the use of any explosive 7
or incendiary device or material is guilty of a Class D felony. 8
(b) Any person who willfully and maliciously damages any real or personal property of 9
any kind or nature belonging to another by the use of any explosive or incendiary device or 10
material is guilty of a Class G felony. 11
(b1) Any person who willfully and maliciously damages, aids, counsels, or procures the 12
damaging of any church, chapel, synagogue, mosque, masjid, or other building of worship by the 13
use of any explosive or incendiary device or material is guilty of a Class E felony. 14
(b2) Any person who willfully and maliciously damages, aids, counsels, or procures the 15
damaging of the State Capitol, the Legislative Building, the Justice Building, or any building 16
owned or occupied by the State or any of its agencies, institutions, or subdivisions or by any 17
county, incorporated city or town, or other governmental entity by the use of any explosive or 18
incendiary device or material is guilty of a Class E felony. 19
(c) Repealed by Session Laws 1993, c. 539, s. 1149, effective October 1, 1994. 20
(d) Any person who possesses any explosive or incendiary device or material with the 21
intent to violate this section is guilty of a Class H felony." 22
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2025, and applies to offenses 23
committed on or after that date. 24