NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 669

HOUSE BILL 235

 

 

AN ACT TO PREVENT TAKING MIGRATORY WATERFOWL WITH THE AID OF BAIT OR LIVE DECOYS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 113-104 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph to read as follows: "It shall be unlawful for any person to take any migratory waterfowl with the aid of bait or live decoys, or on, over or within 300 yards of any place where any grain, salt or other feed is exposed so as to constitute an attraction to migratory waterfowl or has been so exposed during any of the 10 consecutive days immediately preceding the taking, or on, over or within 300 yards of any place where tame or captive migratory waterfowl are present, unless such birds are and have been for a period of 10 consecutive days prior to such taking confined within an enclosure which substantially reduces the audibility of their calls and totally conceals such birds from the sight of wild migratory waterfowl. Nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit the taking of migratory waterfowl on or over standing crops, flooded croplands, grain crops properly shocked on the field where grown, or grains found scattered solely as the result of normal agricultural planting or harvesting."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of June, 1975.