NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1007

HOUSE BILL 1791

 

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT WATERFOWL HUNTING FROM CERTAIN ROADS AND HIGHWAYS IN CHOWAN COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. There is hereby enacted a new section to be placed in Article 10A of Chapter 113 of the General Statutes as follows:

"§ 113-120.5.  Hunting waterfowl from a highway a misdemeanor.It shall be a misdemeanor punishable by up to 30 days imprisonment and a fine of up to one hundred dollars ($100.00) to take waterfowl by hunting when firing from a position on a road or highway within the following area of Chowan County, including both boundaries of the roads and highways referenced with this description: South of N.C. Highway 32 East from Edenton to the Albemarle Sound - includes all land from the city limits from Edenton to the Albemarle Sound Bridge. Both county and Board of Conservation and Development law enforcement officers shall enforce this section outside the city limits of Edenton."

Sec. 2. This act shall become effective two weeks after ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of March, 1974.