NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 697

HOUSE BILL 263

 

 

AN ACT TO PREVENT THE TAKING OF DEER WITH THE AID OF BOATS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 118-104 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph to read as follows:

"It shall be unlawful for any person to take or kill or attempt to take or kill any deer from or through the use of any boat or other floating device; provided that this Section shall not prohibit the transportation of hunters or their legally taken game by means of any boat or other floating device, and shall not prohibit the hunter shooting from his stand, if such stand is not within or a part of such boat or floating device."

Sec. 2. Section 113-109 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby amended by redesignating paragraph (d) thereof as paragraph (e) and by inserting a new paragraph (d) in said Section to read as follows:

"(d)     Any person who shall take or kill or attempt to take or kill any deer from any boat or other floating device in violation of the provisions of this Article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or imprisonment for not less than thirty (30) days nor more than sixty (60) days, in the discretion of the court."

Sec. 2½. The provisions of this Act shall not, in any manner, modify or amend any of the provisions of Chapter 1023 of 1961 Session Laws applying to Bladen County only. This Act shall not repeal Chapter 1376 of the 1955 Session Laws of North Carolina.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3½. This Act shall not apply to the Counties of Beaufort, Bertie, Burke, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Cherokee, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Hertford, Hoke, Lenoir, Martin, Northampton, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Person, Robeson, Sampson, Surry, Swain, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne and Yadkin.

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 5th day of June, 1963.