NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 504

HOUSE BILL 428

AN ACT TO EXEMPT THE BLIND FROM INLAND FISHING LICENSE REQUIREMENTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Article 21 of Chapter 113 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by rewriting G.S. 113-271(c) to read as follows:

"(c)       Any resident of North Carolina who has been certified by the North Carolina Commission for the Blind as a person whose vision with glasses is insufficient for use in ordinary occupations for which sight is essential shall, upon submitting an application together with an authenticated copy of such certification to the License Section of the Wildlife Resources Commission at its headquarters in Raleigh, receive a nontransferable hook-and-line fishing license and, if requested, a special trout license which shall be issued without charge and which shall be valid for the life of such person."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1973.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of May, 1973.