GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 554

HOUSE BILL 693

 

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT TAKING BEAR AND WILD BOAR AND TO ESTABLISH A PENALTY FOR TAKING BALD AND GOLDEN EAGLES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Subdivision (2) of G.S. 113-291.1(b) is hereby amended to read as follows:

"(2)      With the use or aid of any artificial light, net, trap, snare, electronic or recorded animal or bird call, or fire, except as may be otherwise provided by statute. No wild birds may be taken with the use or aid of salt, grain, fruit, or other bait, except as may be otherwise provided by statute. No bear or wild boar may be taken with the use or aid of any salt, salt lick, grain, fruit, honey, sugar-based material, animal parts or products, or other bait. The taking of wild animals and wild birds with poisons, drugs, explosives, and electricity is governed by G.S. 113-261, G.S 113-262, and Article 22A of this Subchapter."

Sec. 2.  Any person who unlawfully takes bear or wild boar with the use or aid of any type of bait is punishable as provided by G.S. 113-294(c).

Sec. 3.  G.S. 113-294 is amended by adding a new subsection "(l)" to read:

"(l)       Any person who unlawfully takes, possesses, transports, sells or buys any bald eagle or golden eagle, alive or dead, or any part, nest or egg of a bald eagle or golden eagle is guilty of a misdemeanor. Unless a greater penalty is prescribed for the offense in question, any person convicted under this subsection is punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or imprisonment of not more than one year, or both."

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1985.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1985.