NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 683

SENATE BILL 771

 

AN ACT TO REGULATE RACCOON AND OPOSSUM HUNTING IN YANCEY COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  It shall be unlawful to hunt raccoon or opossum with dogs and firearms of any type or description at night in Yancey County from February 1, 1972, to October 15, 1972, and from February 1, 1973, to October 15, 1973; however, nothing herein shall affect the laws pertaining to fox hunting in Yancey County at the time this act shall become effective.

Sec. 2.  After October 15, 1973, the laws existing on the day of the enactment of this act and prior to the enactment of this act, shall govern the matters regulated in Section 1.

Sec. 3.  Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be fined fifty dollars ($50.00).

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective on February 1, 1972.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of June, 1971.