NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1097

HOUSE BILL 1079

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 113-136 RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF FISH, FISHING, AND FISHERIES BY THE BOARD OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AND THE WILDLIFE RESOURCES COMMISSION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 113-136 is hereby amended by adding at the end of said Section the following: "No rule or regulation shall be adopted by the Board of Conservation and Development or by the Wildlife Resources Commission acting under any authority conferred upon said Commission by G.S. 143-247 or any other law which will require the exclusive use of a float made of plastic or any other substance when fishing in any waters; provided that in regulating the technique known as 'jug fishing' the Commission may restrict or prohibit the use of floats made of glass for such fishing. Neither the Department of Conservation and Development nor the Wildlife Resources Commission, acting pursuant to this Section, shall limit the number of lines to be used by any fisherman in the public waters of the State provided that the Commission may regulate the number of such lines used in Designated Public Mountain Trout Waters that have been posted as such and stocked with mountain trout at public expense."

Sec. 2.  Nothing in this Act shall be construed to confer upon the Board of Conservation and Development any authority which it does not already possess by virtue of existing law.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of June, 1963.