(a) Town designated as sanctuary. The area within the corporate limits of the town and all land owned or leased by the town outside the corporate limits is hereby designated as a bird sanctuary, as authorized by G.S. 160A-188.
(b) Unlawful to trap, etc. It shall be unlawful intentionally to trap, hunt, shoot, or otherwise kill, within the sanctuary hereby established, any native wild bird, except those birds classes as a pest under article 22A of chapter 113 of the General Statutes (G.S. 113-300.1 et seq.) and the Structural Pest Control Act of North Carolina of 1955 (G.S. 106-65.22 et seq.) or the North Carolina Pesticide Law of 1971 (G.S. 143-434 et seq.), pursuant to an appropriate permit issued by the North Carolina wildlife commission.
(Code 1982, § 4-8; Ord. No. 01-022, § 1, 11-8-2001; Ord. No. 2010-Code-02, 3-10-2010)