NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION
CHAPTER 834
HOUSE BILL 519
AN ACT TO CHANGE THE CHARGE FOR COMBINATION HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES, COUNTY HUNTING LICENSES, AND COUNTY FISHING LICENSES, AND TO INCREASE ISSUANCE FEES FOR LICENSE SALES TO MAKE THEM UNIFORM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. Section 113‑95 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, as the same appears in the 1960 Replacement Volume 3A, is hereby amended as follows:
(a) By rewriting the schedule of license fees following the first paragraph of the Section as follows:
"Nonresident hunting license........................................................................................... $20.00
Nonresident six‑day hunting permit................................................................................... 15.75
State resident hunting license............................................................................................... 4.25
Combination hunting and fishing license............................................................................... 6.25
County hunting license........................................................................................................ 1.65"
(b) By deleting the first, second, and third sentences of the second paragraph of the Section and by inserting in lieu thereof the following:
"Any applicant who is a resident of this State shall pay to the authorized license issuing agent the license fee for the type of license applied for in accordance with the above schedule. The issuing agent is authorized to retain, for each license sold, the sum of fifty cents (50˘) as his fee for issuing nonresident hunting licenses, twenty‑five cents (25˘) for State resident hunting licenses and combination hunting and fishing licenses, and fifteen cents (15˘) for county hunting licenses; provided, however, that employees of the Wildlife Resources Commission shall not collect issuance fees and shall sell all licenses for fifty cents (50˘), twenty‑five cents (25˘), or fifteen cents (15˘) less than the stated amounts as appropriated. The county hunting license shall entitle a resident of the State to take game birds and animals in the county of his residence; the State resident hunting license shall entitle a resident to take game birds and animals in any county in the State at large, in accordance with the North Carolina game laws and appropriate regulations of the Wildlife Resources Commission. All persons who have lived in this State for at least six months immediately preceding the making of such application shall be deemed resident citizens for the purposes of this Article. Said applicant, if a nonresident of this State or a resident for less than six months, or an alien, shall pay to the agent issuing the license nineteen dollars and fifty cents ($19.50) as a license fee and the sum of fifty cents (50˘) as a fee to the agent issuing the same and shall obtain a nonresident hunting license, which shall entitle him to take game birds and animals as authorized by this Article during an entire season; provided that a nonresident may hunt for six consecutive days during a season upon the purchase of a permit provided by the Wildlife Resources Commission for fifteen dollars and fifty cents ($15.50) as a permit fee and twenty‑five cents (25˘) as a fee to the agent issuing the same."
(c) By deleting "five dollars ($5.00) as a license fee" as the same appears in line three from the top of page 399 of the 1960 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes of North Carolina and by inserting in lieu thereof the following:
"six dollars ($6.00) as a license fee".
Sec. 2. G.S. 113‑143.1 is amended to substitute "twenty‑five cents (25˘)" for "ten cents (10˘)" on line seven; to substitute "three dollars ($3.00)" for "two dollars ($2.00)" on line nine, and to substitute "twenty‑five cents (25˘)" for "ten cents (10˘)" on line ten of the Section as it appears in the 1960 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes of North Carolina.
Sec. 3. G.S. 113‑144 is amended to substitute "twenty‑five cents (25˘)" for "ten cents (10˘')" on line six of the Section as it appears in the 1960 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes of North Carolina.
Sec. 4. G.S. 113‑145 is amended to substitute "eight dollars ($8.00)" for "six dollars ($6.00)" on line five; to substitute "twenty‑five cents (25˘)" for "ten cents (10˘)" on line six; to substitute "one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50)" for "one dollar ($1.00)" on line fifteen; to substitute "fifteen cents (15˘)" for "ten cents (10˘)" on line sixteen; to substitute "three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50)" for "two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50)" on line eighteen, and to substitute "twenty‑five cents (25˘)" for "ten cents (10˘)" on line nineteen of the Section as it appears in the 1960 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes of North Carolina.
Sec. 5. G.S. 113‑145 is further amended to substitute "eighty‑five cents (85˘)" for "sixty cents (60˘)" on line twenty‑six and on line twenty‑eight of the Section as it appears in the 1960 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes of North Carolina.
Sec. 6. G.S. 113‑146 is amended to substitute "one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50)" for "one dollar ($1.00)" on line six; and to substitute "fifteen cents (15˘)" for "ten cents (10˘)" on line seven of the Section as it appears in the 1960 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes of North Carolina.
Sec. 7. The hunting license, combination license, and issuance fee increases provided in Section 1 of this Act shall be charged on and after August 1, 1961. The fishing license and issuance fee increases provided by Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of this Act shall be charged on and after January 1, 1962.
Sec. 8. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 9. 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 15th day of June, 1961.