GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 137

HOUSE BILL 68

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE COUNTIES TO REQUEST AN EXTENSION OF THE HOURS DURING WHICH REGULATIONS OF THE WILDLIFE RESOURCES COMMISSION WOULD PROHIBIT THE INTENTIONAL SWEEPING OF AN AREA WITH LIGHTS OR THE INTENTIONAL SHINING OF LIGHTS ON DEER.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The sixth line of G.S. 113-291.1(e1), as contained in the 1981 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3A, Part II, of the General Statutes, is amended by rewriting that line to read:  "lights on deer, during the period either:

(1)       From 11:00 p.m. until one-half hour before sunrise; or

(2)       From one-half hour after sunset until one-half hour before sunrise. Before".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 113-291.1 is amended by inserting a new subsection (e2) to read:

"(e2)    If the Wildlife Resources Commission has enacted a regulation under the authority of subsection (e1) prohibiting the shining of lights from 11:00 p.m. until one-half hour before sunrise in any county or area of a county, the Wildlife Resources Commission is authorized, without holding an additional public hearing, to extend the applicability of that regulation to the period one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise upon receipt of a resolution from the board of commissioners of the county requesting extension of the period."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1983.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of April, 1983.