GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2001

 

 

SESSION LAW 2001-165

HOUSE BILL 931

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE ORANGE COUNTY TO REGULATE THE USE OF ALCOHOL AND OTHER IMPAIRING SUBSTANCES WHILE HUNTING WITH FIREARMS AND TO REGULATE HUNTING NEAR GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS.

 

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  A county may regulate, control, restrict, and prohibit hunting with firearms by persons under the influence of alcohol or other impairing substances and regulate, control, restrict, and prohibit hunting with firearms by persons who have any blood alcohol concentration as measured by an alcosensor. For the purposes of this act, an impairing substance is defined as set forth in G.S. 20-4.01.

SECTION 2.  A county may regulate, control, restrict, and prohibit hunting within 150 yards of any federal, State, or local government building, including those owned or leased by boards of education.

SECTION 3.  A person violating an ordinance enacted under the authority of Sections 1 and 2 of this act is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished as provided in G.S. 14-4, "Violation of local ordinance misdemeanor."

SECTION 4.  This act applies only to Orange County.

SECTION 5.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 4th day of June, 2001.

 

 

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/ James B. Black

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives