NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 312

SENATE BILL 149

 

 

AN ACT TO PERMIT INVITED GUESTS OF THE OWNERS TO FISH IN PRIVATE PONDS WITHOUT LICENSES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 113‑143 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"Provided, that fishing licenses shall not be required of persons who are the invited guests of the owners of private ponds, and who are fishing at the specific invitation of the owner. Private ponds are defined as bodies of water arising within and lying wholly upon the lands of a single owner or a single group of joint owners or tenants in common, and from which fish cannot escape, and into which fish of legal size cannot enter from public waters at any time."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  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 2nd day of May, 1961.