NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 894

SENATE BILL 128

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

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 141-7.1 is hereby enacted to read as follows:

"§ 141-7.1.  Southern lateral seaward boundary. — The lateral seaward boundary between North Carolina and South Carolina from the low-water mark of the Atlantic Ocean shall be and is hereby designated as a continuation of the North Carolina-South Carolina boundary line as described by existing monuments located at Latitude 33° 51' 50.7214" North, Longitude 78° 33' 22.9448" West and Latitude 33° 51' 36.4626" North, Longitude 78° 33' 06.1937" West, in a straight line projection of said line to the seaward limits of the States' territorial jurisdiction, such line to be extended on the same bearing insofar as a need for further delimitation 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and upon the approval and consent to this act by the Congress of the United States; provided, that this act shall stand repealed if the State of South Carolina and the Congress of the United States do not ratify, confirm, adopt, or otherwise consent to the effect of the act establishing the lateral seaward boundary between North Carolina and South Carolina by January 1, 1985.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.