NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 441
HOUSE BILL 595

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE HUNTING HOURS FOR DEER WHILE STILL HUNTING IN PENDER AND NEW HANOVER COUNTIES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall be lawful to hunt male deer during open season without the aid of any type of artificial light from any erected stand or platform, not less than eight feet tall, in or adjoining any cultivated field from daylight to 30 minutes past sundown without the aid of dogs.
Sec. 2. This act shall apply to female (doe) deer when authorized by law or rules of the Wildlife Resources Commission.
Sec. 3. This act shall apply only to the Counties of Pender, New Hanover, Alleghany, Ashe, Bertie, and Watauga.
Sec. 4. The provisions of this act shall remain in full force and effect, unless expressly repealed by some subsequent act of the General Assembly, and shall not be repealed by implication or by general repealing clauses in any act of the General Assembly conferring authority in the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission over the hours for taking male deer from a stand in a cultivated field or field herein provided for.
Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 6. This act shall become effective July 1, 1977.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of May, 1977.