NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

CHAPTER 981

HOUSE BILL 292

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE WILDLIFE RESOURCES COMMISSION TO FIX OPEN SEASON ON DOE DEER IN PENDER COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Wildlife Resources Commission shall have authority in 1967 and 1968 to allow the taking of female deer in portions of Pender County provided that:

(a)       the Commission shall first make a study and determine the feasibility of permitting the taking of female deer in said county and the number, if any, of female deer to be permitted to be taken;

(b)       a public hearing shall be held by the Commissioner in said county at which hearing the Commission shall announce the number of female deer which may be taken, and the specific portion of said county where female deer may be taken;

(c)       all hunts permitted by authority of this Act shall be supervised by the Commission with no less than one game protector present at each hunt for every 20 hunters;

(d)       all hunts permitted by authority of this Act shall be conducted on Mondays;

(e)       when the number of female deer permitted to be taken on each hunt has been taken, the Commission shall immediately stop the hunt.

Sec. 2. This Act shall not be construed as authorizing the Commission to allow the taking of female deer throughout Pender County.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict, but this Act shall not be construed to modify, repeal or abrogate any of the provisions of Article 24 of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes known as the "North Carolina Wildlife Resources Law".

Sec. 4. 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 28th day of June, 1967.