GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1997

SESSION LAW 1998-6
HOUSE BILL 1261

AN ACT TO ADD PASQUOTANK COUNTY TO THOSE COUNTIES IN WHICH IT IS UNLAWFUL TO REMOVE OR DESTROY ELECTRONIC COLLARS ON DOGS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 4 of Chapter 699 of the 1993 Session Laws, as amended by Chapter 682 of the 1995 Session Laws and by S.L. 1997-150, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 4.  This act applies only to Alamance, Avery, Beaufort, Burke, Caldwell, Caswell, Craven, Cumberland, Haywood, Hyde, Jackson, McDowell, Orange, Pasquotank, Pitt, Rockingham, Swain, Macon, Henderson, Transylvania, Union, and Wilkes Counties."
Section 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 1998, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of June, 1998.
s/	Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives