GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007

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HOUSE DRH30167-SB-9  (02/27)

Short Title:     Brunswick Menhaden Restrictions.		(Local)
Sponsors:	Representative Stiller.
Referred to:

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to make it unlawful to take menhaden or atlantic thread herring with a purse seine net within three nautical miles of the shoreline of brunswick county from may 1 through october 31 of each year.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.(a)  It is unlawful to take menhaden or Atlantic thread herring by the use of a purse seine from May 1 through October 31 of each year within three nautical miles of the Atlantic Ocean shoreline in that area east of a line beginning at a point onshore at the border between North Carolina and South Carolina at 33° 51.0667'N - 78° 32.5833'W; running southeasterly three nautical miles to a point offshore at 33° 48.8342'N - 78° 29.8494'W; and south of a line beginning at a point onshore at the border between Brunswick County and  New Hanover County at 33° 55.8833'N - 77° 56.2000'W; then running southeasterly three nautical miles to a point offshore at 33° 54.5735'N - 77° 52.7184'W.

SECTION 1.(b)  Violation of subsection (a) of this section is a Class A1 misdemeanor.

SECTION 2.  This act is effective 30 days after it becomes law and applies to offenses committed on or after the date it becomes effective.