NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1296

HOUSE BILL 1693

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 113-109(g), RELATING TO THE POSSESSION OF COUGARS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 113-109(g), as the same appears in the 1978 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is amended by adding thereto the following:

"The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any person who had in his possession on June 29, 1977, any cougar (felis concolor) providing that person does not keep a cougar in a municipality that has an ordinance on this subject."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

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