NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 674

HOUSE BILL 932

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 692, SESSION LAWS OF 1955, WHICH ACT PROHIBITS THE TAKING OF BEAVER, BY DELETING THE NAMES OF CERTAIN COUNTIES FROM THE PROVISIONS OF THE ACT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Chapter 692, Session Laws of 1955 is hereby amended by deleting the comma following the word "Moore" in line 1 of Section 1, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "and", and by deleting the words "Hoke, Richmond and Scotland" from line 2 of the said Section.

Sec. 2. The Wildlife Resources Commission is authorized, by appropriate rules and regulations, to fix the season and the bag limit or close the season on beaver when it shall find that such action is necessary to maintain an adequate and balanced supply thereof.

Sec. 3. The Wildlife Resources Commission is authorized to issue permits for any landowner to kill, trap or take beaver which have become seriously injurious to agriculture or forests or other interests on such landowner's property.

Sec. 4. This Act shall apply to Hoke, Richmond and Scotland Counties only.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of June, 1963.