NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 510

HOUSE BILL 595

 

 

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE MANIPULATION OF WATER SKIS AND SIMILAR DEVICES IN THE VICINITY OF SWIMMERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, or association of persons, to manipulate any water skis, surfboards, or similar devices, or any power-driven boat towing such devices, within fifty yards, or at any distance which constitutes a hazard or a nuisance, of a shore line near which there are swimmers in the water, or within fifty yards of any swimmer in the water except when such manipulation is necessary in starting the skier from a dead stop or in returning him to the shore, or shall be required to rescue or provide for the safety of a person in the water.

Sec. 2. The provisions of this Act shall apply only to the waters of Lake James in Burke and McDowell Counties.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 22nd day of May, 1963.