14-65. Fraudulently setting fire to dwelling houses.
If any person, being the occupant of any building used as a dwelling house, whether such person be the owner thereof or not, or, being the owner of any building designed or intended as a dwelling house, shall wantonly and willfully or for a fraudulent purpose set fire to or burn or cause to be burned, or aid, counsel or procure the burning of such building, he shall be punished as a Class H felon. (Code, s. 985; 1903, c. 665, s. 3; Rev., s. 3340; 1909, c. 862; C.S., s. 4245; 1927, c. 11, s. 2; 1971, c. 816, s. 8; 1979, c. 760, s. 5; 1979 2nd Sess., c. 1316, s. 47; 1981, c. 63, s. 1; c. 179, s. 14.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Article 15 - Arson and Other Burnings.
§ 14-58 - Punishment for arson.
§ 14-58.1 - Definition of "house" and "building."
§ 14-58.2 - Burning of mobile home, manufactured-type house or recreational trailer home.
§ 14-59 - Burning of certain public buildings.
§ 14-59.1 - Burning of jails or prisons.
§ 14-60 - Burning of schoolhouses or buildings of educational institutions.
§ 14-61 - Burning of certain bridges and buildings.
§ 14-62 - Burning of certain buildings.
§ 14-62.1 - Burning of building or structure in process of construction.
§ 14-62.2 - Burning of churches and certain other religious buildings.
§ 14-62.3 - Burning of commercial structure.
§ 14-63 - Burning of boats and barges.
§ 14-64 - Burning of ginhouses and tobacco houses.
§ 14-65 - Fraudulently setting fire to dwelling houses.
§ 14-66 - Burning of personal property.
§ 14-67.1 - Burning other buildings.
§ 14-67.2 - Burning caused during commission of another felony.
§ 14-68 - Failure of owner of property to comply with orders of public authorities.
§ 14-69 - Failure of officers to investigate incendiary fires.
§ 14-69.1 - Making a false report concerning destructive device.
§ 14-69.2 - Perpetrating hoax by use of false bomb or other device.