NC H1019

Establishes the Fallen Wildlife Officers Memorial Lifetime Sportsman License, also known as the John Oliver Edwards Memorial Lifetime Sportsman License, for surviving family members of wildlife enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.

License is issued free of charge to surviving spouses, children, grandchildren, or great-grandchildren of deceased wildlife enforcement officers.

Provides exemption from the $5.00 administrative personalization fee for this specific license type when issued by the Wildlife Resources Commission.

Entitles license holders to take all wild animals and wild birds by all lawful methods in all open seasons, use game lands, and fish with hook and line in all inland and joint fishing waters, excluding coastal recreational fishing.

Becomes effective July 1, 2019, honoring the eleven wildlife enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in North Carolina since 1930.