NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 1183

SENATE BILL 1023

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH REQUIREMENTS FOR LICENSES FOR COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSELS OWNED BY NONRESIDENTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S.  113-161 is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 113-161.  Nonresidents reciprocal agreements. — Persons who are not residents of North Carolina are not entitled to obtain licenses under the provisions of G.S. 113-152 except as hereinafter provided. Residents of jurisdictions which sell commercial fishing licenses to North Carolina residents are entitled to North Carolina commercial fishing licenses under the provisions of G.S. 113-152. Such licenses may be restricted in terms of area, gear and fishery by the commission so that the nonresidents are licensed to engage in North Carolina fisheries on the same or similar terms that North Carolina residents can be licensed to engage in the fisheries of such other jurisdiction. The secretary may enter into such reciprocal agreements with other jurisdictions as are necessary to allow nonresidents to obtain commercial fishing licenses in North Carolina subject to the foregoing provisions."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1978.