NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 585

HOUSE BILL 1242

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE HUNTING OF BEAR IN HOLLY SHELTER WILDLIFE REFUGE AND BAITING OF GAME IN PENDER COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and particularly Chapter 258, Session Laws of 1969; Chapters 275 and 689, Session Laws of 1971; and Chapter 420, Session Laws of 1973, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission is authorized during the open season for the hunting of bear, to permit hunting for bear on the Holly Shelter Wildlife Refuge; provided, however, that there shall not be authorized during one open season, after the fifteenth of October of each year on every other Monday, the hunting of bear by the aid of dogs.

Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful to hunt in Pender County with the use or aid of any salt, salt lick, grain, fruit or other bait, except as may be specifically otherwise provided by statute or regulations of the Wildlife Resources Commission.

Sec. 3. Penalties for the violation of this act shall be the same as those provided for violation of prohibited acts under Chapter 113 of the General Statutes of North Carolina.

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 The provisions of this act shall remain in full force and effect unless expressly repealed by some subsequent act of the General Assembly, and shall not be repealed by implication or by general repealing clauses in any act of the General Assembly conferring authority in the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission over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 game animals, the open season and manner of taking the game animals herein provided for.

Sec. 5. This act shall become effective after July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1977.