NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1979 SESSION
CHAPTER 748
SENATE BILL 778
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE FEES FOR HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 113-95 is amended by rewriting the schedule of license fees at the end of the first paragraph thereof to read:
"License Fees
Nonresident hunting license $31.00
Nonresident six-day hunting license 25.00
Resident State hunting license 9.50
Resident combination hunting and fishing license 12.50
Resident county hunting license 4.50."
Sec. 2. G.S. 113-95.2 is amended by rewriting the first sentence to read:
"In addition to such hunting licenses as are required by G.S. 113-95, no one may hunt any species of big game without first having procured a big-game hunting license which shall be issued to a resident of this State upon payment of a license fee in the sum of four dollars and twenty-five cents ($4.25) plus twenty-five cents (25¢) for the issuing agent, and to a nonresident of this State upon payment of a license fee in the sum of eighteen dollars ($18.00) plus fifty cents (50¢) for the issuing agent."
Sec. 3. G.S. 113-95.5, as the same appears in the 1978 Replacement Volume 3A, Part II, of the General Statutes, is amended by deleting from the first sentence thereof the words and figures "four dollars and fifty cents ($4.50)" and by substituting in lieu thereof the words and figures "five dollars and fifty cents ($5.50)."
Sec. 4. G.S. 113-95.6 is amended by rewriting the last sentence thereof to read:
"The sportsman's combination license authorized by this section shall be issued upon payment of a license fee in the sum of thirty dollars and fifty cents ($30.50) by a resident of this State, or in the sum of sixty-one dollars and fifty cents ($61.50) by a nonresident, plus fifty cents (50¢) for the issuing agent."
Sec. 5. G.S. 113-96.1 is amended to read:
"§ 113-96.1. Schedule of licenses. — The several hunting and trapping licenses required and authorized by G.S. 113-95, 113-95.2, 113-95.3, 113-95.5, 113-95.6 and 113-96 are summarized and tabulated as follows:
Nonresident hunting license $31.00
Nonresident six-day hunting license 25.00
Nonresident landowner's county hunting license 10.00
Resident State hunting license 9.50
Resident combination hunting and fishing license 12.50
Resident county hunting license 4.50
Controlled shooting preserve hunting license 10.00
Resident big-game hunting license 4.50
Nonresident big-game hunting license 18.50
Primitive weapons hunting license 6.00
Resident sportsman's combination license 31.00
Nonresident sportsman's combination license 62.00
Nonresident trapping license 60.00
Resident State trapping license 10.00
Resident county trapping license 5.00
Lifetime combination licenses:
Resident fifty percent (50%) or more disabled
veteran 7.50
Resident 65 years old 10.00
Resident 70 years old (No Charge)."
Sec. 6. G.S. 113-271(d) is rewritten to read:
"(d) The hook-and-line fishing licenses are granted upon such terms and for such prices as set out below. The amount stated in parentheses following the total price of each license indicates the fee to be kept by a license agent when selling such license, out of the amount collected.
(1) Resident State license, $9.50 (50¢). This license is valid only for use by an individual resident of the State.
(2) Resident State combination hunting-fishing license, $12.50 (50¢). This license is valid only for use by an individual resident of the State. It is valid during the period set for annual hunting licenses in G.S. 113-97.
(3) Resident county license, $4.50 (25¢). This license is valid only for use by an individual resident of the State within the county in which he lives. The provisions of this section shall apply only to those fishing with artificial bait.
(4) Resident daily license, $1.25 (25¢). This license is valid only for use during the day indicated by an individual resident of the State.
(5) Nonresident State license, $15.50 (50¢). This license is valid for use by an individual within the State.
(6) Nonresident State daily license, $2.25 (25¢). This license is valid only for use during the day indicated by an individual within the State."
Sec. 7. G.S. 113-272(d) is amended as follows:
(1) in subdivision (1) by deleting the figures "$3.25 (25¢)" and by inserting in lieu thereof the figures "$4.50 (25¢)"; and
(2) in subdivision (2) by deleting the figures "$6.25" and by inserting in lieu thereof the figures "$8.00".
Sec. 8. G.S. 113-272.1 is amended as follows:
(1) in subdivision (1) by deleting the figures "$25.00" and by inserting in lieu thereof the figures "$31.00"; and
(2) in subdivision (2) by deleting the figures "$50.00" and by inserting in lieu thereof the figures "$62.00".
Sec. 9. This act shall become effective on August 1, 1979, except that Sections 6 (excluding subsection (d)(2)) and 7 of this act shall become effective on January 1, 1980; provided further that in order to allow adequate time for the printing and distribution of hunting licenses and combination hunting and fishing licenses incorporating the amended fees, the 1978-79 hunting licenses and combination hunting and fishing licenses which are scheduled to expire on August 1, 1979, are valid through September 1, 1979.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of June, 1979.