NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 191
SENATE BILL 264

AN ACT TO PERMIT PARTICIPATION IN CERTAIN FIELD TRIALS FOR BEAGLES WITHOUT A HUNTING LICENSE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Chapter 113 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is amended by inserting a new Section 113-98.1 to read as follows:
"§ 113-98.1.  Beagle trials. — Any person may, without being required to obtain a hunting license, participate in a field trial for beagles which is scheduled in advance and approved by the Executive Director of the Wildlife Resources Commission to be conducted without the use or possession of firearms on a beagle field trial area consisting of not more than 100 acres of private land which is completely and permanently enclosed with a metal fence through which rabbits may not escape or enter at any time."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on August 1, 1977.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of April, 1977.