GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007

SESSION LAW 2007-51

SENATE BILL 364

AN ACT to authorize the trapping and sale of foxes in ashe county.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there is an open season for taking foxes by trapping from November 7 through February 12 of each year.  During this season, all leghold traps set on dry land with solid anchor shall have at least three swivels in the trap chain, and no leghold traps larger than size one and one-half may be used.

SECTION 2.  A season bag limit of 10 applies in the aggregate to all foxes taken during the trapping season established in this act.

SECTION 3.  The Wildlife Resources Commission shall provide for the sale of foxes taken lawfully pursuant to this act and pursuant to former G.S. 113-111, as retained to the extent of its application to Ashe County pursuant to G.S. 113-133.1(e).

SECTION 4.  This act applies only to Ashe County.

SECTION 5.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2007, and expires on September 30, 2010.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 17^th day of May, 2007.

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/ Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives