NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 641
HOUSE BILL 1227

AN ACT TO SPECIFY THAT PREDATOR CONTROL, SPORT-HUNTING FOR NONFOOD GAME, AND TRAPPING DO NOT CONSTITUTE CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 14-360 is hereby amended on line 13 by placing a period after the word "permitted," deleting the phrase, "but such terms shall not be construed to prohibit lawful shooting of birds, deer and other game for human food," and inserting the following:
"Such terms shall not be construed to prohibit the lawful taking of animals under the jurisdiction and regulation of the Wildlife Resources Commission."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of May, 1979.