NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1142

SENATE BILL 959

 

 

AN ACT TO REGULATE FOX HUNTING IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. There shall be no closed season for hunting foxes with dogs or guns in Montgomery County.

Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful in Montgomery County to buy or sell a dead fox, fox pelt or other part of a fox. Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of one hundred dollars ($100.00) or 60 days' imprisonment, or both.

Sec. 3. It shall be lawful in Montgomery County, at any time, day or night, to take or attempt to take foxes with dogs.

Sec. 4. Chapter 159 of the Public-Local Laws of 1935 and Chapter 365 of the 1943 Session Laws are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of June, 1978.