GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION

CHAPTER 176
HOUSE BILL 117

AN ACT TO INCREASE FINES IN G.S. 113-135 FOR VIOLATION OF RULES ADOPTED BY THE MARINE FISHERIES COMMISSION OR THE WILDLIFE RESOURCES COMMISSION, AS APPROPRIATE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 113-135(a) reads as rewritten:
"§ 113-135.  General penalties for violating Subchapter or rules; increased penalty for prior convictions; interpretive provisions.
(a)	Any person who violates any provision of this Subchapter or any rule adopted by the Marine Fisheries Commission or the Wildlife Resources Commission, as appropriate, pursuant to the authority of this Subchapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor except that punishment for violation of the rules of the Wildlife Resources Commission is limited as set forth in G.S. 113-135.1.  Unless a different level of punishment is elsewhere set out, anyone convicted of a misdemeanor under this section is punishable as follows:
(1)	For a first conviction, a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisonment not to exceed 30 days.
(2)	For a second or subsequent conviction within one year, a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), imprisonment not to exceed 90 days, or both."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective August 1, 1991.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30th day of May, 1991.

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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives