GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION
CHAPTER 181
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 113-291.2(e) reads as rewritten:
"(e) Upon application of
any landholder or agent of a landholder accompanied by a fee of fifty dollars
($50.00), the Executive Director may require a survey of the deer population on
the land of such landholder. If as a result of the survey it is
determined that there is an overpopulation of deer in relation to the carrying
capacity of the land, that the herd is substantially dependent on such land for
its food and cover, and that the imbalance in the deer population is not
readily correctable by an either-sex deer season of reasonable length, the
Executive Director may issue to such landholder or agent a number of special
antlerless deer tags that in the judgment of the Executive Director is sufficient
to correct or alleviate the population imbalance. Subject to applicable
hunting license requirements and bag, possession and season limits, requirements,
the special deer tags may be used by any person or persons selected by the
landholder or his agent as authority to take antlerless deer, including male
deer with 'buttons' or spikes not readily visible, on the tract of land
concerned during such period of time as shall be prescribed by the Executive
Director beginning after November 1 and ending no later than the close of the
male deer season in the locality. any established deer hunting
season. Each antlerless deer killed shall be affixed immediately with
a special antlerless deer tag in addition to the required big game tag, and
shall be reported immediately in the wildlife cooperator tagging book supplied
with the special antlerless deer tags. This tagging book and any unused
tags shall be returned to the Commission within 15 days of the close of the
season. Each such Antlerless deer taken under this program and
tagged with the special antlerless tags provided shall not count as
part of the daily bag, possession, and season limits of the person taking the
deer."
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of June, 1995.
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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives