NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 524

SENATE BILL 429

 

 

AN ACT TO ALTER THE PUNISHMENT FOR HUNTING DEER AT NIGHT WITH THE USE OF LIGHTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 113-109(b) as the same appears in the 1969 Cumulative Supplement to the 1966 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes is hereby amended and rewritten to read as follows:

"(b)      Any person who takes or attempts to take deer between sunset and sunrise with the aid of a spotlight or other artificial light on any highway or in any field, woodland, or forest, in violation of this article shall, upon conviction, be fined for a first offense not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) or imprisoned for not more than sixty days or both in the discretion of the court, and for subsequent offenses shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than two hundred fifty dollars($250.00) or imprisoned not more than 90 days or both in the discretion of the court. In any locality or area which is frequented or inhabited by wild deer, the flashing or display of any artificial light from roadway or public or private driveway so that the beam thereof is visible for a distance of as much as fifty feet from such roadway or driveway, or the flashing or display of artificial light at any place off such roadway or driveway, when either of such acts is accompanied by the possession of a firearm or a bow and arrow during the hours between sunset and sunrise except as authorized herein for the taking of raccoon, opossums, or frogs, shall constitute prima facie evidence of a violation punishable under the provisions of the preceding sentence."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1971.