NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 726

HOUSE BILL 1000

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 515, SESSION LAWS OF 1965, PROTECTING WILD OR FERAL HOGS IN MACON AND CLAY COUNTIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Chapter 515 of the Session Laws of 1965 is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 1. Wild or feral hogs are hereby declared to be game animals. It shall be unlawful to take any wild or feral hog between the effective date of this Act and October 15, 1969.

Beginning in 1969, the open season for taking wild or feral hogs shall be as follows: October 15 to January 1.

The bag limit on wild or feral hogs shall be as follows: Per day, one; per season, two; possession, two.

"Sec. 2. A violation of this Act shall be a misdemeanor punishable in the discretion of the court.

"Sec. 3. This Act shall be applicable only to Macon and Clay Counties."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of June, 1967.