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Other new laws that take effect today in North Carolina:

* AMUSEMENT DEVICES: Provides criminal penalties when violations of state regulations on amusement devices cause death.

* ANTIQUE CARS: Allows a licensed motor vehicle dealer to get a temporary license to sell antique and specialty vehicles off-site for up to 10 days.

* DESIGNER DRUGS: Adds analogue drugs to criminal statutes against the manufacture, sale, delivery or possession with intent to sell controlled substances.

* GUARDIANSHIPS: Authorizes clerks of court to order a limited guardianship where the ward can retain certain legal rights and privileges.

* HIT-AND-RUN: Provides that a driver can have his or her license revoked for two years for leaving the scene of a crash involving injury or death.

* IMPAIRED DRIVERS: Requires defendants ordered into Drug Alcohol Recovery Treatment to first undergo chemical dependency screening.

* JUVENILE PRISONS: Extends penalty for allowing prisoners to escape to include those who allow juveniles to flee state facilities.

* PEEPING: Amends secret peeping law so that it covers men as well as women who are victims.

* SECURITIES FRAUD: Increases criminal punishment for large-scale securities fraud where the loss totals $100,000 or more.

* SEXUAL BATTERY: Creates new criminal offense of sexual battery and specifically protects the mentally disabled or physically helpless.

* SPORTS AGENTS: Requires more specific information on agents' background and makes it a felony for agents to give anything of value to student-athletes to induce them to sign a contract.

* STALKING: Requires supervised probation for anyone convicted of misdemeanor stalking who gets community punishment.

1 posted on 12/01/2003 8:14:34 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather
Eureka! Utopia!

Also interesting:* SEXUAL BATTERY: Creates new criminal offense of sexual battery and specifically protects the mentally disabled or physically helpless.

Massachusetts did away with that one about ten years ago (Sex with a Mentally Retarded Person)

Guess it's unwise to persecute more than half of a state's citizens.

2 posted on 12/01/2003 8:28:13 PM PST by dasboot (Celebrate UNITY!)
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