GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 574

HOUSE BILL 1293

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SHALL STUDY THE NEED TO PROTECT MARITIME FORESTS AND PREVENT PIECEMEAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE FORESTS AND REPORT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON THE RESULTS OF THE STUDY AND THE DEVELOPMENT AND ADOPTION OF RULES TO PROTECT MARITIME FORESTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, Division of Coastal Management, shall study the need to protect maritime forests and to prevent piecemeal development in the forests.  The Department shall inventory the maritime forests and their resources, the development that has occurred within the forests, and the effect of the development on maritime forests.  The Department shall report to the 1989 General Assembly, Regular Session 1990, its  findings from the study and any rules that are proposed or adopted by the Department to protect maritime forests.

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 4th day of July, 1989.