2016 North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 143 - State Departments, Institutions, and Commissions.
Article 34 - Local Affairs.
§ 143-320 - Definitions.
143-320. Definitions.
As used in this Article, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Department" means the Department of Environmental Quality.
(2) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Environmental Quality.
(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); 2015-241, ss. 14.30(u), (v).)
