GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION
CHAPTER 176
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 113-135(a) reads as rewritten:
"§ 113-135. General penalties for violating Subchapter or rules; increased penalty for prior convictions; interpretive provisions.
(a) Any person who violates any provision of this Subchapter or any rule adopted by the Marine Fisheries Commission or the Wildlife Resources Commission, as appropriate, pursuant to the authority of this Subchapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor except that punishment for violation of the rules of the Wildlife Resources Commission is limited as set forth in G.S. 113-135.1. Unless a different level of punishment is elsewhere set out, anyone convicted of a misdemeanor under this section is punishable as follows:
(1) For a first
conviction, a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) twenty-five
dollars ($25.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00) one hundred
dollars ($100.00) or imprisonment not to exceed 30 days.
(2) For a second or
subsequent conviction within three years, one year, a fine of not
less than fifty dollars (50.00) one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor
more than two hundred dollars ($200.00)five hundred dollars
($500.00), imprisonment not to exceed 90 days, or both."
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective August 1, 1991.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30th day of May, 1991.
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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives