NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 140

HOUSE BILL 263

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE TAKING OF WILDLIFE AT NIGHT WITH THE AID OF AN ARTIFICIAL LIGHT FROM OR THROUGH THE USE OF ANY CONVEYANCE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 113-104 as it appears in the 1967 Supplement to Volume 3A of the General Statutes is amended to add a new paragraph as follows between paragraphs one and two of the section as they presently appear in that Supplement:

"No person shall take any wild animal or wild bird at night with the aid of an artificial light if such taking is from any aircraft, vehicle, watercraft, or other conveyance; provided however that this section does not prohibit the collection of specimens for scientific and medical studies when conducted under permit issued by the North Carolina Wildlife Commission."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of March, 1969.