NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 452
SENATE BILL 235

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE LATERAL SEAWARD BOUNDARY BETWEEN NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Chapter 141 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby amended by adding a new section to be designated as G.S. 141-8 to read as follows:
"§ 141-8.  Northern lateral seaward boundary. — The lateral seaward boundary between North Carolina and Virginia eastward from the low water mark of the Atlantic Ocean shall be and is hereby designated as a line beginning at the intersection of the low water mark of the Atlantic Ocean and the existing North Carolina-Virginia boundary line; thence due east on a true 90 degree bearing to the seaward jurisdictional limit of North Carolina; such boundary line to be extended on the true 90 degree bearing as far as a need for further delineation may arise."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification, and with approval thereof, and concurrence therein, by the General Assembly of Virginia and upon the approval and consent to this act by the Congress of the United States.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of May, 1971.