NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 129

HOUSE BILL 169

AN ACT RELATING TO HUNTING FROM PUBLIC ROADS IN DUPLIN AND PENDER COUNTIES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Chapter 450, Session Laws of 1951, as amended by Chapter 34, Session Laws of 1957, is repealed.

Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, except as herein provided, to hunt or discharge a firearm from a right-of-way of any public numbered highway maintained by the North Carolina State Highway Commission, including but not limited to, the taking or attempt to take, any bird or game animal without first obtaining the permission of the owner of the land onto or across which the firearm is discharged where such lands abut the public numbered highways maintained by the State Highway Commission.

Sec. 3. The wilful violation of this Act shall be a general misdemeanor punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

Sec. 4. This Act shall apply only to Pender County.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. This Act shall become effective September 1, 1969.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of March, 1969.