GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1989 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 809

HOUSE BILL 2124

 

AN ACT TO MAKE A TECHNICAL CORRECTION IN A 1987 ACT WHICH REGULATED THE SHINING OF LIGHTS IN DEER AREAS IN THE COUNTIES OF BERTIE AND MADISON.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 3 of Chapter 249, Session Laws of 1987, reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 3.  Section 1 Sections 1 and 2 of this act shall not be construed to prevent:

(1)       the lawful hunting of raccoon or opossum during open season with artificial lights designed or commonly used in taking raccoon and opossum at night;

(2)       the necessary shining of lights by landholders on their own lands;

(3)       the shining of lights necessary to normal travel by motor vehicles on roads or highways; or

(4)       the use of lights by campers and others who are legitimately in these areas for other reasons and who are not attempting to attract or to immobilize deer by the use of lights."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1990.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 20th day of June, 1990.