GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2015

SESSION LAW 2015-73

HOUSE BILL 574

AN ACT TO provide that STATE WILDLIFE LAWS do not apply TO OPOSSUMS BETWEEN THE DATES OF DECEMBER 29 AND JANUARY 2.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  No State or local statutes, rules, regulations, or ordinances related to the capture, captivity, treatment, or release of wildlife shall apply to the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) between the dates of December 29 of each year and January 2 of each subsequent year.

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 3^rd day of June, 2015.

                                                                    s/  Daniel J. Forest

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/  Tim Moore

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

                                                                    s/  Pat McCrory

                                                                         Governor

Approved 10:00 a.m. this 11^th day of June, 2015