GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1989 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 163

SENATE BILL 453

 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH SEASONS FOR HUNTING FOXES WITH FIREARMS AND BOW AND ARROW AND FOR TRAPPING FOXES IN BURKE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there is an open season for hunting, taking, or killing foxes with firearms and bow and arrow during the season for hunting any game animal as established by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.

Sec. 2.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there is an open season for hunting, taking, or killing foxes by trapping from January 1 through January 31 of each year.

Sec. 3.  Section 4 of Chapter 636 of the 1977 Session Laws reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 4.  This act shall apply only to Burke, Caldwell, Harnett, Lee, Pamlico and Martin Counties."

Sec. 4.  The Wildlife Resources Commission shall provide for the sale of foxes taken lawfully pursuant to this act.

Sec. 5.  This act applies only to Burke County.

Sec. 6.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1989.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30th day of May, 1989.