NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 1319

HOUSE BILL 1250

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT DEER HUNTING FROM ANY HIGHWAY RIGHT-OF-WAY MAINTAINED BY THE STATE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  It shall be unlawful to hunt deer at any time on or from any public road or highway.

Sec. 2. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00).

Sec. 3. The provisions of this act shall not be deemed exclusive and any person hunting, killing or taking deer or attempting to hunt, kill or take deer without a valid license, or out of season, or between sunset and sunrise, or in violation of a statute prohibiting the taking of doe deer, may also be punished for violation of any statute prohibiting such acts.

Sec. 4. This act shall apply only to the counties of Anson, Durham, Person, Richmond and Orange.

Sec. 5. This act shall become effective on July 1, 1974.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of April, 1974.