NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 405
HOUSE BILL 643

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 13A OF CHAPTER 113 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES SO AS TO DEFINE THE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE COMMERCIAL FISHERIES ADVISORY BOARD, AND TO MORE CLOSELY COORDINATE THE WORK OF THIS BOARD WITH THAT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 113-142.2 is amended by adding a new paragraph to read as follows:
"The Commercial Fisheries Advisory Board shall act as a liaison group between the commercial fishermen and the Commercial Fisheries Committee of the Board of Conservation and Development. It shall consider all matters which may be referred to it for study by the Commercial Fisheries Committee and it shall render a report in writing giving conclusions on each matter so referred. It shall originate its own studies on various matters which may be taken up with its members by commercial fishermen and it shall report on these matters to the Commercial Fisheries Committee. It shall, through its chairman, keep in close contact with the Commercial Fisheries Committee and bring to the attention of the committee all such matters as may be brought before the advisory board by fishermen and which do not require specific study but which may require decisions by the Commercial Fisheries Committee. Aside from making recommendations to the Commercial Fisheries Committee on matters referred to it the board shall make recommendations to the Commercial Fisheries Committee on all matters which are deemed relevant which may come to the attention of the various members of the board through their contacts with the commercial fishermen and with the North Carolina Fishermen's Association."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 113-142.6 is amended by rewriting the second paragraph to read as follows:
"The board shall meet at the call of the Chairman of the Commercial Fisheries Committee of the Board of Conservation and Development, but in any case it shall meet with the Commercial Fisheries Committee at each regular quarterly meeting of the Board of Conservation and Development. The chairman of the board also shall have the authority after consultation with the members of the board to call special meetings from time to time to consider such matters as may be brought before it by fishermen or referred to it by the Commercial Fisheries Committee, and at all such meetings the Chairman of the Commercial Fisheries Committee or a member of the committee appointed by him shall be in attendance."
Sec. 3.  G.S. 113-142.7 is amended by deleting the words and figures "five dollars ($5.00)" in the second line and inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures "seven dollars ($7.00)".
Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 5.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of May, 1963.