NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 514

HOUSE BILL 617

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT SKIING WITHIN FIFTY YARDS OF FISHERMEN.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or association of persons to manipulate any water skis, surfboard, or similar device, or any motor-powered boat towing such device, within fifty yards, or at any distance which constitutes a hazard or nuisance, of any person who may be fishing from a boat or from the shore line, except when such manipulation is necessary in starting the skier from a dead stop or in returning him to the shore, or shall be required to rescue or provide for the safety of a person in the water.

Sec. 2. This Act shall apply only to the waters of Lake James in Burke and McDowell Counties.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 22nd day of May, 1963.