GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1991 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 295

SENATE BILL 475

 

AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE WILDLIFE RESOURCES COMMISSION TO MODIFY THE BOUNDARIES OF A PORTION OF THE DANIEL BOONE BEAR SANCTUARY LOCATED IN CALDWELL AND AVERY COUNTIES, AND TO ALLOW THE HUNTING OF BEAR AND WILD BOAR FROM THE RIGHTS-OF-WAY OF UNPAVED ROADS IN AVERY, CALDWELL, AND WILKES COUNTIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Wildlife Resources Commission, in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service, shall modify the boundaries of that portion of the Daniel Boone Bear Sanctuary located in Caldwell and Avery Counties as follows:

(1)       That portion of the Daniel Boone Bear Sanctuary located east of U.S. Forest Service Road 45 in Caldwell County shall no longer be included in the bear sanctuary.

(2)       That portion of the Pisgah Game Land in Caldwell and Avery Counties which is not currently part of the Daniel Boone Bear Sanctuary, but which is located south of the northeastern portion of the bear sanctuary and is bisected by State Road 1530, shall be included within the bear sanctuary.

Sec. 2.  The provisions of Chapter 150 of the 1973 Session Laws, as amended by Chapter 220 of the 1979 Session Laws, Chapter 39 of the 1987 Session Laws, and any other law making it unlawful to hunt, take, or kill, do not apply to the hunting, taking, or killing of bear or wild boar from the right-of-way of any unpaved road in Avery, Caldwell, or Wilkes County.

Sec. 3. Section 1 of this act becomes effective October 1, 1991, and expires October 1, 1993.  Section 2 of this act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 17th day of June, 1991.

 

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James C. Gardner

President of the Senate

 

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Daniel Blue, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives