NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1153

HOUSE BILL 1316

 

 

AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE REMOVAL OF ABANDONED BOATS OR OTHER WATERCRAFT ALONG THE SHORES OR IN THE WATERS OF CHOWAN COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Any person, firm or corporation who or which shall abandon any boat, barge, or other watercraft along the shores of or in the waters of the Chowan River, Edenton Bay, Pembroke Creek, Filberts Creek, Queen Anne's Creek in Chowan County, shall, within sixty (60) days after such abandonment, or earlier upon written notice by the Sheriff of Chowan County, remove or cause to be removed such watercraft from the shores and waters of said water courses. Failure to remove such watercraft within the time herein specified shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this Act. Any such watercraft which shall be and remain sunken, lying on the bottom of such water courses, or unattended for a period of sixty (60) days shall be conclusively presumed to have been abandoned within the meaning of this Act.

Sec. 2. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine or imprisonment, or both, in the discretion of the court.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of June, 1959.