NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 570

HOUSE BILL 406

 

AN ACT TO PREVENT THE DIGGING OF DITCHES BELOW A CERTAIN LEVEL IN BLADEN COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to dig any ditch under any portions of U. S. Highway No. 701, N. C. Highway No. 53 and S. R. 1515 which surround that body of water in Bladen County known as White Lake below 66 feet above sea level.

Sec. 2.  If any person shall violate the provisions of this act he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and may be fined or imprisoned in the discretion of the Court.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1971.