NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 748

HOUSE BILL 917

 

AN ACT TO PREVENT FACILITATION OF THE UNLAWFUL TAKING OF GAME WITH THE AID OF BOATS BY MEANS OF PLACING RESTRICTIONS UPON THE TRANSPORTATION OF GAME ABOARD MOTOR-PROPELLED VESSELS IN THE WATERWAYS, RIVERS, CREEKS OR STREAMS LYING WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF NORTHAMPTON, CUMBERLAND, GATES AND HERTFORD COUNTIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. No person aboard a motor-propelled vessel on the waterways, rivers, creeks or streams in Northampton, Cumberland, Gates or Hertford Counties shall transport game that was taken unlawfully. No person in charge of any motor-propelled vessel or towed-vessel on said waterways, rivers, creeks or streams in Northampton, Cumberland, Gates or Hertford Counties shall permit anyone to have in possession aboard such vessel game that was taken unlawfully.

Sec. 2. As used in this act, a motor-propelled vessel includes any vessel propelled by machinery or equipped with propulsion machinery, except that the term shall not include an outboard motorboat, the motor for which has been completely removed from place and stored aboard the vessel.

Sec. 3. The provisions of this action shall not apply to any person exempt from provisions of G.S. 14-269 with respect to any activities lawfully engaged in while carrying out his duties, and shall not apply to the Halifax County side of the Roanoke River. The provisions of this act, as it relates to Halifax and Northampton Counties, shall apply only to the waters and tributaries of the Roanoke River.

Sec.4. All law enforcement officers, including enforcement officers of the Wildlife Resources Commission, shall have jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of this act.

Sec. 5. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be punished by fine not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisonment not to exceed 30 days, or both.

Sec. 6. This act shall become effective September 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1975.