Sec. 1. Operation of motor vehicles or aircraft prohibited in described areas.
   Except as provided in section 2 of this act it shall be unlawful for any person to operate any motor vehicle, or land or take off in any aircraft, except in case of emergency, within a beach area in Dare County described as follows:
    Beginning at a point, the northeast corner of the Wright Memorial Bridge, running thence in a straight line directly east to the low tidewater line on the ocean front, thence in a southerly direction along the ocean front with the low tidewater line, twenty miles more or less to a point in said low tidewater line, said point being directly east of the southeast corner of the Roanoke Sound Bridge; thence in a straight line directly west to the southeast corner of the Roanoke Sound Bridge; thence with the eastern right-of-way line of U. S. Highway No. 158 to the point of beginning.
   The provisions of this chapter shall also apply to that portion of the beach area beginning at a point in the low tidewater line on the ocean front directly east of the southeast corner of the Roanoke Sound Bridge and running thence in a southeasterly direction with the low tidewater line a distance of eight miles to a point on the low tidewater line, thence in a line directly west to a point where said line intersects the eastern boundary line of the proposed extension of the highway leading in a southerly direction toward Oregon Inlet, thence in a northerly direction along the eastern boundary line of said highway to a point therein directly west of the point of beginning, thence in a direct easterly line to the point of beginning.
   The provisions of this chapter shall also apply to that portion of the beach area beginning at a point on the low tidewater line on the Atlantic Ocean front which said point is intersected by an extension of the northern margin of the right of way of U. S. Highway No. 158, extending from Wright Memorial Bridge to the Dare Beach area and the Atlantic Ocean, and running thence in a northerly direction along the low tidewater line on the Atlantic Ocean front a distance of four miles more or less to the northern boundary of that subdivision known as Hargraves Beach, map or plat of said subdivision being recorded in map book 2, page 3, in the public registry of Dare County, North Carolina, and running thence in a westerly direction along the northern boundary of Hargraves Beach to the eastern margin of that North Carolina state paved highway extending from Kitty Hawk to Duck, North Carolina and running thence in a general southerly direction along the eastern margin of the aforesaid North Carolina state highway to its point of intersection with U.S. Highway No. 158 and running thence in an easterly direction along the northern margin of the right of way of U.S. Highway No. 158, or an extension thereof, to the point of beginning.
(Sess. Laws 1947, ch. 192, § 1; Sess. Laws 1951, ch. 305, § 1; Sess. Laws 1959, ch. 503, § 1.)