AN ACT to pROHIBIT the discharging of firearms FROM or across the right‑of‑way of a portion of STATE ROAD 1862, known as joyner drive, IN CRAVEN COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Unless a person owns or possesses a leasehold interest in the real property immediately adjacent to the portion of the road on which the person is located, it is unlawful for that person to discharge a firearm from, on, or across the right‑of‑way of State Secondary Road 1862, known as Joyner Drive, from Adams Creek Road to the end of the State‑maintained portion of the road.
SECTION 2.  Violation of this act is a Class 3 misdemeanor.
SECTION 3.  This act is enforceable by law enforcement officers of the Wildlife Resources Commission, by sheriffs and deputy sheriffs, and by peace officers with general subject matter jurisdiction.
SECTION 4.  This act applies only to Craven County.
SECTION 5.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2009.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of June, 2009.

	s/	 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

	s/	 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives