GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 132

HOUSE BILL 536

 

AN ACT REGULATING HUNTING IN GREENE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 1 of Chapter 471 of the 1985 Session Laws reads as rewritten:

"Section 1.  It is unlawful to discharge a firearm from, onto, or across any hunt with a loaded firearm from or on a public road or the right-of-way thereof.  As used in this section, 'to hunt' means to hunt as that term is defined in G.S. 113-130(5a)."

Sec. 2.  Section 2 of Chapter 219 of the 1975 Session Laws reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful to take or kill or attempt to take or kill deer with rifles, except through the use of tree stands with at least an eight-foot elevation. from a position elevated at least eight feet above the ground and not affixed to a motor vehicle.  As used in this section, 'to take' means to take as that term is defined in G.S. 113-130(7)."

Sec. 3.  Section 1 of Chapter 360 of the 1979 Session Laws reads as rewritten:

"Section 1.  Any person who, between the hour of ten eleven o'clock p.m. on any day and one-half hour before sunrise on the following day, deliberately flashes or displays an artificial light from or attached to a motor-driven conveyance or from any means of conveyance attached to the motor-driven conveyance so as to cast the beam thereof beyond the surface of a roadway or in any field, woodland or forest in an area frequented or inhabited by game or nongame animals shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.  Every person occupying the vehicle or conveyance at the time of the violation shall be deemed prima facie guilty of the violation as a principal."

Sec. 4.  This act applies only to Greene County.

Sec. 5.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1987.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 4th day of May, 1987.