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perusing the criminal law statutes for no particular reason. came across a 
few I found interesting (summation with comments comes first; only made it 
about 1/4 through the laws).


§ 14-12.6.  Meeting places and meetings of secret societies regulated.
 [doesn't this sorta infringe on peaceable assembly?]
§ 14-17.1.  Crime of suicide abolished.
§ 14-46.    Concealing birth of child.
 [the statute specifies a stillborn child; why?  wouldn't the state be more 
interested in the concealment of a living child?]
§ 14-72.3.  Removal of shopping cart from shopping premises.
 [HA! ... and isn't this redundant? I mean, theft is theft is theft...]
§ 14-72.4.  Unauthorized taking or sale of labeled dairy milk cases or 
            milk crates bearing the name or label of owner.
 [ditto]
§ 14-113.4. Avoiding or attempting to avoid payment for
            telecommunication services.
 [ditto.2]
§ 14-129.   Taking, etc., of certain wild plants from land of another.
 [ditto.3 ... man, the General Assembly really likes to get specific...]
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§ 14-12.6.  Meeting places and meetings of secret societies
       regulated.
  Every secret society which has been or is now being
formed and organized within the State, and which has members
within the State shall forthwith provide or cause to be provided
for each unit, lodge, council, group of members, grand lodge or
general supervising unit a regular meeting place in some
building or structure, and shall forthwith place and thereafter
regularly keep a plainly visible sign or placard on the
immediate exterior of such building or structure or on the
immediate exterior of the meeting room or hall within such
building or structure, if the entire building or structure is
not controlled by such secret society, bearing upon said sign or
placard the name of the secret society, the name of the
particular unit, lodge, council, group of members, grand lodge
or general supervising unit thereof and the name of the
secretary, officer, organizer or member thereof who knows the
purposes of the secret society and who knows or has a list of
the names and addresses of the members thereof, and as such
secretary, officer, organizer or member dies, removes, resigns
or is replaced, his or her successor's name shall be placed upon
such sign or placard; any person or persons who shall hereafter
undertake to form and organize any secret society or solicit
membership for a secret society within the State shall fully
comply with the foregoing provisions of this section before
forming and organizing such secret society and before soliciting
memberships therein; all units, lodges, councils, groups of
members, grand lodge and general supervising units of all secret
societies within the State shall hold all of their secret
meetings at the regular meeting place of their respective units,
lodges, councils, group of members, grand lodge or general
supervising units or at the regular meeting place of some other
unit, lodge, council, group of members, grand lodge or general
supervising unit of the same secret society, and at no other
place unless notice is given of the time and place of the
meeting and the name of the secret society holding the meeting
in some newspaper having circulation in the locality where the
meeting is to be held at least two days before the meeting.
(1953, c. 1193, s. 5.)


§ 14-17.1.  Crime of suicide abolished.
  The common-law crime of suicide is hereby abolished as an
offense. (1973, c. 1205.)


§ 14-46.  Concealing birth of child.
  If any person shall, by secretly burying or otherwise
disposing of the dead body of a newborn child, endeavor to
conceal the birth of such child, such person shall be punished
as a Class I felon.  Any person aiding, counseling or abetting
any other person in concealing the birth of a child in violation
of this statute shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (21
Jac. I, c. 27; 43 Geo. III, c. 58, s. 3; 9 Geo. IV, c. 31, s.
14; 1818, c. 985, P.R.; R.C., c. 34, s. 28; 1883, c. 390; Code,
s. 1004; Rev., s. 3623; C.S., s. 4228; 1977, c. 577; 1979, c.
760, s. 5; 1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1316, s. 47; 1981, c. 63, s. 1,
c. 179, s. 14; 1993, c. 539, ss. 24, 1148; 1994, Ex. Sess., c.
24, s. 14(c).)


§ 14-72.3.  Removal of shopping cart from shopping premises.
  (a)As used in this section:
       (1)  "Shopping cart" means the type of push cart
            commonly provided by grocery stores, drugstores,
            and other retail stores for customers to transport
            commodities within the store and from the store to
            their motor vehicles outside the store.
       (2)  "Premises" includes the motor vehicle parking area
            set aside for customers of the store.
  (b) It is unlawful for any person to remove a shopping cart
from the premises of a store without the consent, given at the
time of the removal, of the store owner, manager, agent or
employee.
  (c) Violation of this section is a Class 3 misdemeanor.
(1983, c. 705, s. 1; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 14, s. 3.1.)
  

§ 14-72.4.  Unauthorized taking or sale of labeled dairy milk
       cases or milk crates bearing the name or label of owner.
  (a)A person is guilty of the unauthorized taking or sale
of a dairy milk case or milk crate on or after January 1, 1990,
if he:
       (1)  Takes, buys, sells or disposes of any dairy milk
            case or milk crate, bearing the name or label of
            the owner, without the express or implied consent
            of the owner or his designated agent; or
       (2)  Refuses upon demand of the owner or his designated
            agent to return to the owner or his designated
            agent any dairy milk case or milk crate, bearing
            the name or label of the owner; or
       (3)  Defaces, obliterates, erases, covers up, or
            otherwise removes or conceals any name, label,
            registered trademark, insignia, or other business
            identification of an owner of a dairy milk case or
            milk crate, for the purpose of destroying or
            removing from the milk case or milk crate evidence
            of its ownership.
  (b) For purposes of this section dairy milk cases or milk
crates shall be deemed to bear a name or label of an owner when
there is imprinted or attached on the case or crate a name,
insignia, mark, business identification or label showing
ownership or sufficient information to ascertain ownership.  For
purposes of this section, the term "dairy case" shall be defined
as a wire or plastic container which holds 16 quarts or more of
beverage and is used by distributors or retailers, or their
agents, as a means to transport, store, or carry dairy products.
  (c) A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.
  (d) Nothing in this section shall preclude the prosecution of
any misdemeanor or felony offense that is applicable under any
other statute or common law. (1989, c. 303; 1994, Ex. Sess., c.
14, s. 3.2.)


§ 14-113.4.  Avoiding or attempting to avoid payment for
       telecommunication services.
  It shall be unlawful for any person to avoid or attempt
to avoid, or to cause another to avoid, the lawful charges, in
whole or in part, for any telephone or telegraph service or for
the transmission of a message, signal or other communication by
telephone or telegraph, or over telephone or telegraph
facilities by the use of any fraudulent scheme, device, means or
method. (1961, c. 223, s. 2; 1965, c. 1147.)


§ 14-129.  Taking, etc., of certain wild plants from land of
       another.
  No person, firm or corporation shall dig up, pull up or
take from the land of another or from any public domain, the
whole or any part of any Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula),
trailing arbutus, Aaron's Rod (Thermopsis caroliniana),
Bird-foot Violet (Viola pedata), Bloodroot (Sanguinaria
canadensis), Blue Dogbane (Amsonia tabernaemontana),
Cardinal-flower (Lobelia cardinalis), Columbine (Aquilegia
canadensis), Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria),
Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum pedatum), Walking Fern (Camptosorus
rhizophyllus), Gentians (Gentiana), Ground Cedar, Running Cedar,
Hepatica (Hepatica americana and acutiloba), Jack-in-the-Pulpit
(Arisaema triphyllum), Lily (Lilium), Lupine (Lupinus),
Monkshood (Aconitum uncinatum and reclinatum), May Apple
(Podophyllum peltatum), Orchids (all species), Pitcher Plant
(Sarracenia), Shooting Star (Dodecatheon meadia), Oconee Bells
(Shortia galacifolia), Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum), Trailing
Christmas (Greens-Lycopodium), Trillium (Trillium), Virginia
Bluebells (Mertensia virginica), and Fringe Tree (Chionanthus
virginicus), American holly, white pine, red cedar, hemlock or
other coniferous trees, or any flowering dogwood, any mountain
laurel, any rhododendron, or any ground pine, or any Christmas
greens, or any Judas tree, or any leucothea, or any azalea,
without having in his possession a permit to dig up, pull up or
take such plants, signed by the owner of such land, or by his
duly authorized agent. Any person convicted of violating the
provisions of this section shall be guilty of a Class 3
misdemeanor only punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars
($10.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to the Counties
of Cabarrus, Carteret, Catawba, Cherokee, Chowan, Cumberland,
Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Franklin, Gaston, Granville,
Hertford, McDowell, Pamlico, Pender, Person, Richmond,
Rockingham, Rowan and Swain. (1941, c. 253; 1951, c. 367, s. 1;
1955, cc. 251, 962; 1961, c. 1021; 1967, c. 355; 1971, c. 951;
1993, c. 539, s. 69; c. 553, s. 9; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s.
14(c); 2001-93, s. 1; 2001-487, s. 43(a).)