GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2005

SESSION LAW 2005-15

HOUSE BILL 921

AN ACT to amend the currituck county deer hunting law to provide for the taking of either sex deer.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 4 of Chapter 221 of the 1993 Session Laws reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 4.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there is an open season for hunting or taking antlered deer of either sex with shotguns no larger than 10 gauge shotguns, bow and arrow, and muzzle-loading firearms in:

(1)       That portion of Poplar Branch Township on the Outer Banks of Currituck County; and

(2)       The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Swan Island and Monkey Island Refuge Areas on the Outer Banks of Currituck County;

from October 18, 1993, through January 1, 1994, and in subsequent years as during the season established by the Wildlife Resources Commission. Commission and with bag limits established by the Commission."

SECTION 2.  In 2005 only, the either sex deer season on the Outer Banks of Currituck County as established by Section 1 of this act shall coincide with the either sex deer season established for the rest of Currituck County by the Wildlife Resources Commission.

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 25^th day of April, 2005.

                                                                    s/ Marc Basnight

                                                                         President Pro Tempore of the Senate

                                                                    s/ James B. Black

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives