GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1997 SESSION

S.L. 1997-150

SENATE BILL 58

AN ACT TO ADD ALAMANCE, BEAUFORT, BURKE, CALDWELL, CASWELL, CRAVEN, CUMBERLAND, HYDE, MCDOWELL, ORANGE, PITT, ROCKINGHAM, UNION, AND WILKES COUNTIES TO THOSE COUNTIES IN WHICH IT IS UNLAWFUL TO REMOVE OR DESTROY ELECTRONIC COLLARS ON DOGS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 4 of Chapter 699 of the 1993 Session Laws reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 4.  This act applies only to Alamance, Beaufort, Burke, Caldwell, Caswell, Craven, Cumberland, Haywood, Hyde, Jackson, McDowell, Orange, Pitt, Rockingham, Swain, Macon, Henderson, and Transylvania Transylvania, Union, and Wilkes Counties.

Section 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 1997, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 5th day of June, 1997.

s/   Marc Basnight

President Pro Tempore of the Senate

s/   Harold J. Brubaker

Speaker of the House of Representatives