Bill Text: NJ A910 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes hunters to wear hunter's hot pink caps and outer garments as alternative to hunter's orange.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee [A910 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-A910-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 910

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2018 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  BETTYLOU DECROCE

District 26 (Essex, Morris and Passaic)

Assemblyman  PARKER SPACE

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Authorizes hunters to wear hunter's hot pink caps and outer garments as alternative to hunter's orange.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act concerning hunting garments and amending P.L.1973, c.169.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Section 1 of P.L.1973, c.169 (C.23:4-13.1) is amended to read as follows:

     1.    a.  Any person while hunting deer, rabbit, hare, squirrel, fox, or game birds, other than waterfowl, with firearms in this State, shall wear a cap of fluorescent hunter's orange or hunter's hot pink, or some other outer garment containing at least 200 square inches of fluorescent hunter's orange or hunter's hot pink material which shall be visible  from all sides.  The penalty for violation of this section shall be [$50.00] $50 for each offense.

     b.    "Hunter's hot pink" means a daylight fluorescent hot pink color which is equally or more visible than hunter's orange and which meets such specifications as may be prescribed therefor by the Division of Fish and Wildlife in the Department of Environmental Protection.

     "Hunter's orange" means a daylight fluorescent orange color with a dominant wave length between 595 and 605 nanometers, excitation purity not less  than 85%, and luminance factor of not less than 40%.

(cf:  P.L.1973, c.169, s.1)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill authorizes hunters to wear hunter's hot pink caps or other outer garments as an alternative to hunter's orange.