GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION

CHAPTER 249
HOUSE BILL 636

AN ACT CONCERNING THE PROCEDURE FOR ADOPTING RULES FOR UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY SITES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 121-23 reads as rewritten:
"§ 121-23.  Department is custodian of underwater personal property of the State and may adopt rules concerning the property.
The Department of Cultural Resources is the custodian of shipwrecks, vessels, cargoes, tackle, and underwater archaeological artifacts to which the State has title under G.S. 121-22.  The Department of Cultural Resources may adopt rules necessary to preserve, protect, recover, or salvage any or all of these properties."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification and applies to rules adopted by the Department of Cultural Resources on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30th day of June, 1993.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives