GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001

HOUSE BILL 726
RATIFIED BILL

AN ACT RELATING TO regulation of ocean activities by dare county. 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  A county may adopt ordinances to regulate and control swimming, personal watercraft operation, surfing, and littering in the Atlantic Ocean and other waterways within its territorial jurisdiction. The governing board of a municipality within the county may by resolution permit a county ordinance adopted pursuant to this act to be applicable within the municipality consistent with the provisions of G.S. 153A‑122.
SECTION 2.  This act applies only to Dare County.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th day of May, 2001.

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

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		 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives