NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 400

SENATE BILL 436

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT PERSONS WHO ACCIDENTALLY KILL DEER WITH MOTOR VEHICLES NEED NOT REPORT SUCH ACCIDENT TO THE WILDLIFE RESOURCES COMMISSION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Notwithstanding any regulation of the Wildlife Resources Commission, any person who shall accidentally kill a deer with an automobile or other motor vehicle need not report such accident to the Wildlife Resources Commission nor shall said person have to surrender the carcass of the dead deer to any public agency or public official. Provided that any person desiring to keep the carcass of an accidentally killed deer must obtain a permit from a wildlife protector or other law enforcement officer.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1971.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of May, 1971.