§ 113-29.1. Growing of timber on unused State lands authorized. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 113‑29.1. Growing of timber on unused State lands authorized.

The Department of Administration may allocate to the Department, formanagement as a State forest, any vacant and unappropriated lands, anymarshlands or swamplands, and any other lands title to which is vested in theState or in any State agency or institution, where such lands are not beingotherwise used and are not suitable for cultivation.  Lands under thesupervision of the Wildlife Resources Commission and designated and in use aswildlife management areas, refuges, or fishing access areas and lands used asresearch stations shall not be subject to the provisions of this section.  TheDepartment shall plant timber‑producing trees on all lands allocated toit for that purpose by the Department of Administration.  The Secretary maycontract with the appropriate prison authorities for the furnishing, upon suchconditions as may be agreed upon from time to time between such prisonauthorities and the Secretary, of prison labor for use in the planting,cutting, and removal of timber from State forests which are under themanagement of the Department. (1957, c. 584, s. 1; 1969, c. 342, s. 2; 1973, c. 1262, ss. 28, 86;1977, c. 771, s. 4; 1989, c. 727, s. 50.)