NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 769

SENATE BILL 799

 

 

AN ACT TO PERMIT HUNTING OF GAME BIRDS WHILE FEEDERS ARE IN OPERATION ON CONTROLLED SHOOTING PRESERVES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 84 of Chapter 113 of the General Statutes, as the same appears in the 1978 Replacement Volume 3 A, Part II, is amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph to read as follows:

"(9)      Notwithstanding any provision of G.S. 113-104 to the contrary, it shall' be lawful for a properly licensed person hunting on a licensed controlled shooting preserve to take game birds in the vicinity of operating bird feeders which contain grain or other food, provided that the number, type and location of such feeders have been approved by the Wildlife Resources Commission, and provided further that the locations of all such feeders are accurately depicted on a map of the controlled shooting preserve provided to the Wildlife Resources Commission in accordance with its regulations."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of June, 1979.