NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 147

HOUSE BILL 265

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PENALTY FOR TAKING WILD TURKEY DURING THE CLOSED SEASON,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Section 113-109 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, as the same appears in the 1960 Replacement Volume 3A, is hereby amended by redesignating paragraph (d) thereof as paragraph (e) and by inserting a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:

"(d)      any person who shall take or attempt to take wild turkey during the closed season thereon as established by the wildlife resources commission shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisoned for not less than ninety (90) days, or both in the discretion of the court."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of April, 1963.