NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 1003

HOUSE BILL 789

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT ANY PERSON FROM HUNTING DEER WITH A RIFLE HAVING A BORE LARGER THAN TWENTY-TWO CALIBER IN RICHMOND COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Amend Section 2 of Chapter 1143 of the Session Laws of 1959 by adding at the end of said Section the following:

"The game protectors and deputy game protectors of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission shall have power and authority to make arrests for all violations of this Act and shall exercise the same power and authority in connection with violations of this Act as exercised by said game protectors and deputy game protectors under the provisions of Chapter 113 of the General Statutes, as amended."

Sec. 2. Chapter 1143 of the Session Laws of 1959 is hereby amended by rewriting Section 3 thereof to read as follows:

"Sec. 3. This Act shall apply to Scotland and Richmond Counties only."

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1961.