NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 804

SENATE BILL 234

 

 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE LATERAL SEAWARD BOUNDARY BETWEEN NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 141 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby amended by adding a new section to be designated as G.S. 141-7 to read as follows:

"§ 141-7.  Southern lateral seaward boundary. — The lateral seaward boundary between North Carolina and South Carolina eastward from the low water mark of the Atlantic Ocean shall be and is hereby designated as a line beginning at the intersection of the low water mark of the Atlantic Ocean and the existing North Carolina-South Carolina boundary line; thence by a straight line projection of the present North Carolina-South Carolina boundary line to the point where the said line intersects 33° 27' 00" N; thence due east on a true 90 degree bearing along 33° 27' 00" N latitude to the seaward jurisdictional limit of North Carolina; such boundary line to be extended on the true 90 degree bearing along 33° 27' 00" N latitude as far as a need for further delineation may arise."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification and with approval thereof, and concurrence therein, by the State of South Carolina and upon the approval and consent to this act by the Congress of the United States.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of July, 1971.