NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 306

HOUSE BILL 638

AN ACT PROHIBITING THE USE OF RIFLES IN THE MAINLAND AREA OF DARE COUNTY FROM THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY LINE OF THE TOWN OF KILL DEVIL HILLS TO THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY LINE OF THE COUNTY OF DARE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, other than while upon his own property, to discharge a rifle.

Sec. 2. This Act shall not apply to any law enforcement officer in the pursuit of his duties.

Sec. 3. This Act shall apply only in that area of Dare County which lies North of the North line of the municipality of the Town of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, and South of the dividing line between Dare County and Currituck County, and bounded on the East by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the West by Kitty Hawk Bay and Currituck Sound.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of April, 1969.