North Carolina General Statutes § 143-320 Definitions

As used in this Article, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1)        "Department" means the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

(2)        "Secretary" means the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources.

(3)        "Recreation" means those interests that are diversionary in character and that aid in promoting entertainment, pleasure, relaxation, instruction, and other physical, mental, and cultural developments and experiences of a leisure nature, and includes all governmental, private nonprofit and commercial recreation forms of the recreation field and includes parks, conservation, recreation travel, the use of natural resources, wilderness and high density recreation types and the variety of recreation interests in areas and programs which are incorporated in this range. (1969, c. 1145, s. 1; 1973, c. 1262, s. 51; 1977, c. 771, ss. 4, 8; 1989, c. 727, s. 168; 1997-443, s. 11A.119(a).)

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