NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 1201
SENATE BILL 832

AN ACT TO CONFORM THE TERMS OF HUNTING, TRAPPING, AND FISHING LICENSES TO THE STATE'S FISCAL YEAR.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Subsection (b) of G.S. 113‑270.2 is hereby amended to read as follows:
"(b) Except when indicated otherwise, all hunting licenses are annual licenses beginning July 1 each year running until the following June 30."
Sec. 2. The second sentence of subsection (a) of G.S. 113‑270.3 is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Special activity licenses are annual licenses issued beginning July 1 each year running until the following June 30."
Sec. 3. Subsection (b) of G.S. 113‑270.4 is hereby amended to read as follows:
"(b) The hunting guide license is an annual license issued upon payment of five dollars and twenty‑five cents ($5.25) beginning July 1 of each year running until the following June 30."
Sec. 4. The last sentence of subsection (a) of G.S. 113‑270.5 is hereby amended to read as follows:
"All trapping licenses are annual licenses issued beginning July 1 each year running until the following June 30."
Sec. 5. G.S. 113‑271 is hereby amended as follows:
(1)	The second sentence of subsection (b) is amended to read as follows: "Annual fishing licenses are issued beginning July 1 each year running until the following June 30."
(2)	The last sentence of subdivision (1a) of subsection (d) is repealed.
(3)	The last sentence of subdivision (2) of subsection (d) is repealed.
(4)	The last sentence of subdivision (4a) of subsection (d) is repealed. 
Sec. 6. G.S. 113‑272 is hereby amended as follows:
(1)	Subsection (b) is amended to read as follows:
"(b) Except as otherwise indicated, special trout licenses or annual licenses issued beginning July 1 each year running until the following June 30."
(2)	The last sentence of subdivision (1a) of subsection (d) is repealed.
(3)	The last sentence of subdivision (1c) of subsection (d) is repealed.
Sec. 7. Subsection (b) of G.S. 113‑272.2 is hereby amended to read as follows:
"(b) All special device licenses are annual licenses issued beginning July 1 each year running until the following June 30."
Sec. 8. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this act, any of the following licenses that shall be issued after July 31, 1982, and before July 1, 1983, shall run until July 31, 1983:
Resident sportsman combination license
Resident combination hunting‑fishing license
Resident State hunting license
Resident county hunting license
Nonresident sportsman combination license
Nonresident State hunting license Game land license.
Sec. 9. Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, the Wildlife Resources Commission shall issue, for the term beginning January 1, 1983, and ending June 30, 1983, the following fishing licenses at the prices indicated:
Resident State fishing license 	$4.75
Resident county fishing license 	$2.50
Nonresident State fishing license 	$8.00
Resident special trout license 	$2.50
Nonresident special trout license 	$4.00
Resident special device license 	$5.00
Nonresident special device license	$12.50
Resident personal use special device license	$1.50
Nonresident personal use special device license	$5.00
License agents issuing any of these licenses shall be entitled to retain from the proceeds a fee in the amount authorized by G.S. 113‑270.1(b).
Sec. 10. Section 9 of this act shall become effective January 1, 1983. All other provisions of this act shall become effective July 1, 1983.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of June, 1982.