(a) The Town of Pinebluff, within its entire corporate limits, is hereby declared to be a Bird Sanctuary. It shall be the duty of the Town officials to use such means as they deem best to encourage the citizenry to attract and protect all birds. A number of appropriate signs shall be placed on the highways where they enter the Town, stating the Town is a Bird Sanctuary and all birds are protected by both State and Federal law. and that harming them in any way is a misdemeanor and punishable as such.
(b) It shall be unlawful within the Town limits to pursue, shoot, hunt, kill, capture, snare or net any bird, collect birds’ nests, except old and abandoned nests, or eggs, and all lesser acts such as disturbing or annoying birds or placing or using any net or other device for the purpose of taking birds, whether or not they result in taking such birds, except as hereinafter provided.
(c) The Town Board may, upon the recommendation of two adults of good repute owning and maintaining residence within the Town, issue licenses, revocable at their pleasure, permitting owners of real estate to shoot, trap or destroy, upon their own property, any or all birds named in the bulletins issued by the United States Biological Survey as not worthy of protection.
(d) It shall be lawful under a bird-banding permit issued by the United States Bureau of Biological Survey, endorsed or supplemented by the State officials of North Carolina, to maintain a bird-banding station and to capture live and uninjured birds for banding purposes.