A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to amend the law prohibiting the discharge of firearms on registered land in granville county by allowing the tracts of registered land to be recorded in the geographic Information System.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Subsection (f) of Section 2 of Chapter 159 of the 1991 Session Laws, as amended by Chapter 152 of the 1995 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"(f)	By September 1 each year, the sheriff must:
(1)	File with the Register of Deeds of Granville County a listing of all tracts of land accepted by him for registration during the ensuing year. This listing must contain an abbreviated description of the location of each tract of land so accepted.
(2)	File with the Register of Deeds a copy of the full description of the boundaries of each tract accepted for registration that year under subsection (b). As to the remaining applications accepted, the sheriff must indicate in his filing with the Register of Deeds the year in which a full description was filed for that tract that met the requirements of subdivision (2) of subsection (b).
(3)	File with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission all of the material required to be filed with the Register of Deeds under subdivisions (1) and (2). The sheriff must also furnish the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission with a copy of the signature of each registrant and agent newly authorized to issue entry permits during the ensuing year, and a listing of agents no longer authorized to issue entry permits. In addition, throughout the year as registrants make changes with respect to their authorized agents or there are amended applications that substitute registrants, the sheriff must as soon as feasible inform the Commission of the changes and file with the Commission a copy of the signatures of new registrants and agents.
	(5)	Compile and maintain throughout the ensuing year in his office, so that the information is freely available to the public, all of the information covered by this subsection.
(6)	The sheriff shall not be required to meet the filing requirements of subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection if all tracts accepted for registration hereunder are shown as a layer in Granville County's Geographic Information System in a manner that is accessible to the public and the Wildlife Resources Commission free of charge."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.