Bill Text: NC H360 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Sunday Hunting on Private Land

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 12-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-21 - Ref to the Com on Agriculture, if favorable, Regulatory Reform [H360 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2013-H360-Amended.html

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

H                                                                                                                                                    1

HOUSE BILL 360

 

 

Short Title:        Sunday Hunting on Private Land.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representatives B. Brown, Moffitt, Warren, and Saine (Primary Sponsors). For a complete list of Sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly Web Site.
Referred to:	Agriculture, if favorable, Regulatory Reform.

March 21, 2013

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to allow hunting on sunday on private land with permission of the owner.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 103‑2 reads as rewritten:

"§ 103‑2.  Hunting on Sunday.

(a)        If any person shall, except in defense of his own property, property and except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, hunt on Sunday, having with him a shotgun, rifle, or pistol, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. Provided, that the provisions hereof shall not be applicable to military reservations, the jurisdiction of which is exclusively in the federal government, or to field trials authorized by the Wildlife Resources Commission. Wildlife protectors are granted authority to enforce the provisions of this section.

(b)        A person may hunt on Sunday on privately owned land if the person is the owner of the property or if the person has written permission dated and signed by the owner of the property to hunt on Sunday on that property."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.