NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 654

SENATE BILL 415

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 113 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES PERTAINING TO FISHING IN CERTAIN BOUNDARY WATERS BY BOUNDARY COUNTY RESIDENTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 113-276 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is amended by adding the following sentences at the end of paragraph (e):

"Where a municipality is bounded by a boundary river or stream, residents of the county in which the municipality is located may fish in the boundary river or stream from those banks of such river or stream in any adjoining county lying directly opposite to the banks of the municipality in question and be deemed fishing within their county for the purposes of the exemption contained in this paragraph. The same is deemed true of fishing from the banks of any island in the boundary river or stream within the area opposite the banks of the municipality or municipalities. For the purposes of this Section, a boundary river or stream is such portion of a river or stream which either forms a county boundary line or follows the course of such a line. Such line may follow the middle, thread, some former channel, the edge, or some other course in, along, under, or touching the waters of such river or stream so long as the course of the river or stream substantially represents or follows the course of such boundary line."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of June, 1967.