76-58. Interfering with buoys, beacons, and day marks.
If any person shall moor any kind of vessel, or any raft or any part of a raft, to any buoy, beacon, or day mark placed in the waters of North Carolina by the authority of the United States Lighthouse Board, or shall in any manner hang on with any vessel or raft, or part of a raft, to any such buoy, beacon, or day mark, or shall willfully remove, damage, or destroy any such buoy, beacon, or day mark, or shall cut down, remove, damage, or destroy any beacon erected on land in this State by the authority of the said United States Lighthouse Board, or through unavoidable accident run down, drag from its position, or in any way injure any buoy, beacon, or day mark, as aforesaid, and shall fail to give notice as soon as practicable of having done so, to the lighthouse inspector of the district in which said buoy, beacon, or day mark may be located, or to the collector of the port, or, if in charge of a pilot, to the collector of the port from which he comes, he shall for every such offense be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. (1858-9, c. 58, ss. 2, 3; 1883, c. 165, s. 1; Code, s. 3085; Rev., s. 3546; C.S., s. 6999; 1993, c. 539, s. 576; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Article 5 - General Provisions.
§ 76-40 - Navigable waters; certain practices regulated.
§ 76-41 - Obstructing waters of Currituck Sound.
§ 76-42 - Lumbermen to remove obstructions in Albemarle Sound.
§ 76-43 - Anchorage in range of lighthouses.
§ 76-44 - Vessels on inland waterways exempt from pilot laws; proviso as to steam vessels.
§ 76-46 - Pilots to have spyglasses.
§ 76-47 - Acting as pilot without license.
§ 76-48 - Penalty on pilot neglecting to go to vessel having signal set.
§ 76-49 - Pilots may be removed.
§ 76-50 - Pilots refused, entitled to pay.
§ 76-51 - Pay of pilots when detained by vessel.
§ 76-52 - Rates of pilotage annexed to commission.
§ 76-53 - Harbor masters; how appointed.
§ 76-54 - Commissioners of navigation may hold another office.
§ 76-55 - Commissioners of navigation to designate place for trash.
§ 76-56 - Harbor master; how appointed where no board of navigation.
§ 76-57 - Rafts to exercise care in passing buoys, etc., penalty.