Jurisdiction for Swine - Definition - North Carolina

The following definitions and their cognates apply in the description of the various marine and estuarine and wildlife resources: (5c) Feral Swine.--Free-ranging mammals of the species Sus scrofa. (15) Wild Animals.--Game animals(,) fur-bearing animals(,) feral swine(,) and all other wild mammals except marine mammals found in coastal fishing waters. In addition, this definition includes members of the following groups which are on the federal list of endangered or threatened species: wild amphibians, wild reptiles except sea turtles inhabiting and depending upon coastal fishing waters, and wild invertebrates except invertebrates declared to be pests under the Structural Pest Control Act of North Carolina of 1955 or the North Carolina Pesticide Law of 1971. Nothing in this definition is intended to abrogate G.S. 113-132(c), confer jurisdiction upon the Wildlife Resources Commission as to any subject exclusively regulated by any other agency, or to authorize the Wildlife Resources Commission by its regulations to supersede valid provision of law or regulation administered by any other agency.;

Citation:  N.C.G.S.A. § 113-129