NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 114

HOUSE BILL 583

 

AN ACT TO MAKE IT UNLAWFUL TO KILL ANY RED FOX IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY OR McDOWELL COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to take by gun, trap or otherwise, or to kill or destroy by any means, any red fox in Rutherford County or McDowell County; provided that this section shall not prohibit killing foxes with firearms or the trapping thereof when they are committing depredations to property or at any time when they may become a menace to the public health or safety.

Sec. 2. Violation of this act shall be a misdemeanor punishable by fine of not more than fifty dollars ($50.00) or imprisonment for not more than 30 days.

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective July 1, 1973.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of March, 1973.