GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 129
HOUSE BILL 910

AN ACT TO PERMIT ELECTROFISHING FOR CATFISH IN PORTIONS OF SAMPSON, PENDER, AND BLADEN COUNTIES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who holds a current and valid special device license as defined in G.S. 113-272.2 may use a hand-operated device which generates an electric current for taking catfish.
Sec. 2.  This act applies only to that portion of the Black River in Sampson, Pender, and Bladen Counties between Clear Run Bridge at Highway 411 and its junction with the Cape Fear River, and to that portion of South River in Sampson and Bladen Counties from Ennis Bridge at Highway 1007 to its junction with the Black River.
Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of May, 1989.