NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 116

HOUSE BILL 65

 

 

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE TAKING OF OYSTERS FOR THE PURPOSE OF SALE FROM PRIVATELY OWNED OR LEASED OYSTER BOTTOMS DURING THE CLOSED SEASON.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of any local, private, or public law to the contrary, it shall be unlawful for any person to take any oysters, for the purpose of sale, from any privately owned or leased oyster bottoms of this State during the season in which the taking of oysters from the public bottoms is prohibited.

Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or attempt to sell any oysters taken from privately owned or leased oyster bottom, or from any of the public grounds or natural oyster beds of the State during the closed season for the taking of oysters from the public grounds or natural beds.

Sec. 3. Any person convicted of the violation of either of the above Sections shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) or more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or imprisoned for not less than thirty (30) days or more than sixty (60) days, or shall be both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court.

Sec. 4. This Bill shall apply only to Brunswick County.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. 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 29th day of March, 1963.