AN ACT to repeal the law prohibiting the setting of steel traps on certain rented or leased land in cleveland, polk, and rutherford counties.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Chapter 397 of the 1975 Session Laws is repealed.
SECTION 2.  Chapter 765 of the 1977 Session Laws reads as rewritten: 
"Sec. 5.  This act shall apply to Alleghany, Avery, Forsyth, Mitchell, Moore, Nash, Stokes and Yadkin Counties only."
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law. 
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 19th day of March, 2013.

	s/	 Philip E. Berger
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

	s/	 Thom Tillis
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives