The commission shall have full authority in the licensing of devices for concealing a person or persons hunting migratory waterfowl and licensing of exclusively geographic locations in Dare County for the purpose of hunting migratory waterfowl from a blind, box or other permanent or semipermanent structure or device located thereon. No such exclusive geographic location shall be located on the shoreline of any game land owned or managed by the Wildlife Resources Commission, nor shall the periphery of any such location extend to any point within five yards of the shoreline of any such game land.
The commission shall maintain a map and record system defining site locations and licensees.
The commission shall collect a fee of $25 per new license issued and $10 per renewal license issued. Within 30 days of the close of each fiscal year the secretary-treasurer of the commission shall pay one-half of the total license fees collected during the previous fiscal year to the Wildlife Resources Commission as reimbursement for the cost of enforcement as required by Section 6 of this Article. The other one-half of the license fees so collected shall be used to defray expenses in the printing of licenses and any other necessary or proper expenses of the commission. All funds retained by the commission shall be held, accounted for, and audited annually as required by the General Statutes for units of local government and public authority.
Licenses shall be issued for the period July 1 through June 30 each year and the balance in the account of the commission on June 30 shall be paid to the general fund of Dare County.
The commission shall, after a public hearing to discuss proposed rules and regulations, establish, adopt and publish written rules and regulations, which shall be available to the public for a reasonable fee, governing the issuance and reissuance of licenses.
The commission shall adopt an official seal, a facsimile of which shall be exhibited on all licenses.
(Sess. Laws 1977, ch. 435, § 3; Sess. Laws 1979, ch. 588, § 3.)