NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 513

HOUSE BILL 616

 

 

AN ACT TO PROMOTE THE SAFETY OF SKIN DIVERS AT LAKE JAMES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in diving with diving equipment within three hundred yards of the intake at the Bridgewater Power House at Lake James, or to dive with equipment in any of the waters of Lake James without having a person in attendance upon the surface, or a buoy floating upon the surface marking the area in which he is skin diving; provided however, the provisions of this Act shall not apply when such person diving with diving equipment shall be engaged in an attempt to rescue or provide for the safety of a person or persons in the water, or when engaged in repair, maintenance or other activity when officially employed for such.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 22nd day of May, 1963.