H 1218

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
  SESSION 2025
 H  2
  HOUSE BILL 1218
  Committee Substitute Favorable 5/19/26
 Short Title:   Navigable Waters/Pine Knoll Shores.  (Local)
 Sponsors:
 Referred to:
  May 5, 2026
1A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
2 AN ACT TO PROVIDE THE TOWN OF PINE KNOLL SHORES WITH THE AUTHORITY
3     TO PLACE AIDS AND MARKERS TO NAVIGATION.
4 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
5SECTION 1. The Town of Pine Knoll Shores (Town) is empowered to make, adopt,
6 and enforce ordinances for the navigable waters of canals and Bogue Sound within the corporate
7 limits and extraterritorial jurisdiction of the Town concerning the following:
8(1)     Placement and maintenance of channel aids and markers, anchoring aids and
9markers, and navigational aids and markers in conformity with the United
10States Aids to Navigation System and the rules of the Wildlife Resources
11Commission as adopted for use on the waters of North Carolina pursuant to
12G.S. 75A-15(c). Before placing channel aids and markers, anchoring aids and
13markers, and navigational aids and markers, the Town Board of
14Commissioners, by ordinance, shall identify the location of the aids and
15markers by use of Global Positioning System coordinates and notify both the
16U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing of the
17intent to place the aids and markers. The notice shall be at least six weeks prior
18to the placement of any channel aids and markers, anchoring aids and markers,
19or navigational aids and markers under the authority granted by this act.
20(2)     The enforcement of ordinances adopted under the authority of this act in
21accordance with G.S. 160A-175.
22SECTION 2. This act is intended to supersede G.S. 75A-15(a)(3) for the navigable
23 waters of canals and Bogue Sound within the corporate limits and extraterritorial jurisdiction of
24 the Town of Pine Knoll Shores. In the event of conflict between any local ordinance adopted
25 under the authority of this act and any other statutes, rules, or regulations of the Wildlife
26 Resources Commission, the Department of Environmental Quality, the United States Coast
27 Guard, or the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the State or federal rule or regulation shall
28 supersede and prevail over the local ordinance to the extent of the conflict.
29SECTION 3. Duly sworn law enforcement officers of the Town of Pine Knoll
30 Shores, the Carteret County Sheriff's Office, and the Wildlife Resources Commission shall have
31 the authority to enforce any local ordinances adopted under the authority of this act.
32SECTION 4. This act applies only to the Town of Pine Knoll Shores.
33SECTION 5. This act is effective when it becomes law.
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