GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
HOUSE BILL 463
RATIFIED BILL
AN ACT to amend the law providing for the taking of foxes with weapons and by trapping in rockingham county.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Chapter 179 of the 1985 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Section 1.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there is an open season for taking
foxes with weapons from December 1 through January 1 of each year. firearms,
bow and arrow, or crossbow during any open small game season each year.
Sec. 2. Notwithstanding any
other provision of law, there is an open season for taking foxes by trapping
from January 2 through January 31 November 1 through February 28
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. shall be in
accordance with State law.
Sec. 3. A season bag
limit of 30 applies in the aggregate to all foxes taken during the weapons and
trapping seasons established in this act. No bag limit applies to foxes
taken under this act.
Sec. 4. The Wildlife
Resources Commission shall provide for the sale of foxes taken lawfully
pursuant to this act. No tags shall be required for the sale of the fur
of foxes taken in accordance with this act.
Sec. 5. This act shall apply only to Rockingham County.
Sec. 6. This act shall become effective October 1, 1985."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of June, 2011.
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Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
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Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives