NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1098

HOUSE BILL 1597

 

 

AN ACT TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF DISEASE AMONG NATIVE POPULATIONS OF WILD TURKEY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 113-105 as the same appears in the 1973 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph at the end thereof to read as follows:

"It shall be unlawful for any person to release any domestically propagated or pen-raised wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) for stocking purposes."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of April, 1974.