NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 902

SENATE BILL 425

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY TO PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE USE OF FIREARMS AND EXPLOSIVES IN THICKLY POPULATED AREAS OUTSIDE THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF CITIES AND TOWNS IN NEW HANOVER COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of New Hanover County is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to issue, pass and promulgate ordinances, rules and regulations governing the firing of guns, rifles, pistols, or any kind of firearms in thickly populated areas outside the corporate limits of a city or town in the County of New Hanover. The Board of Commissioners of New Hanover County is also authorized and empowered to set up such rules and regulations as deemed necessary for the use and control of dynamite and other explosives in the said county. A violation of any of the ordinances, rules and regulations so issued, passed or promulgated under the authority of this Act shall be a misdemeanor, and upon a plea of nolo contendere, or a plea of guilty, or upon conviction, any offender shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00).

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. 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 11th day of June, 1959.