NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 759

SENATE BILL 472

 

 

AN ACT TO DEVELOP A PLAN AND POLICY OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT FOR ALL LANDS SUITABLE FOR THIS PURPOSE OWNED BY THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 113-306, as the same appears in the 1975 Replacement Volume 3A, is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subsection, subsection (d), reading as follows:

"(d)      The Wildlife Resources Commission is hereby authorized and directed to develop a plan and policy of wildlife management for all lands owned by the State of North Carolina which are suitable for this purpose. The Division of State Property and Construction of the Department of Administration shall determine which lands are suitable for the purpose of wildlife management. Nothing in the wildlife management plan shall prohibit, restrict, or require the change in use of State property which is presently being used or will in the future be used to carry out the goals and objectives of the State agency utilizing such land. Each plan of wildlife management developed by the Wildlife Resources Commission shall consider the question of public hunting; and whenever and wherever possible and consistent with the primary land use of the controlling agency, public hunting shall be allowed under cooperative agreement with the Wildlife Resources Commission. Any dispute over the question of public hunting shall be resolved by the Division of State Property and Construction."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of June, 1977.