NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 761

HOUSE BILL 941

AN ACT PERMITTING RESIDENTS OF THE STATE WHO ARE BLIND TO FISH IN LAKE NORMAN WITHOUT A FISHING LICENSE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Subsection (c) of G.S. 113-271 is hereby designated as subsection (d).

Sec. 2.  G.S. 113-271 is amended by inserting after subsection (b) a new subsection (c) as follows:

"(c)       Any person who has been a resident of the State for at least one year and who has been certified by the North Carolina Commission for the Blind or a physician or optometrist as a person whose vision with glasses is insufficient for use in ordinary occupations for which sight is essential shall not be required to have a hook-and-line fishing license to fish in Lake Norman provided such person at the time of fishing in Lake Norman is in attendance at Camp Dogwood."

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of June, 1969.