NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1178

SENATE BILL 718

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 1436 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1957 RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY WILD FOWL IN CURRITUCK SOUND AND ITS TRIBUTARIES IN CURRITUCK COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 16 of Chapter 1436 of the Session Laws of 1957 is hereby amended by inserting a new sentence at the beginning thereof to read as follows:

"The Currituck County Game Commission with the approval of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission shall have authority to restrict or prohibit the use of air boats on Currituck Sound from September 1 to April 1 of each year."

Sec. 2. Section 34 of Chapter 1436 of the Session Laws of 1957 is amended by changing the period at the end of the fourteenth line to a semicolon and by adding thereafter the following:

"provided further, that no person may hunt over or adjacent to the waters herein referred to within 500 yards of any blind licensed to some other person whether such blind is in use or not."

Sec. 3. Section 34 of Chapter 1436 of the Session Laws of 1957 is further amended by deleting the words and punctuation in the fifteenth line which read "Nothing, however, in the last provision" and by inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Nothing contained in the first proviso of this section".

Sec. 4. This act shall be effective from and after the date of its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of July, 1971.