GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1989 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 229

HOUSE BILL 796

 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH FOX SEASONS IN HYDE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there is a season for taking, hunting, or killing foxes with bow and arrow, rifle, shotgun, and dogs from November 15 through January 1 of each year.

Sec. 2.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there is a season for taking, hunting, or killing foxes with traps from January 2 through the last day of February of each year.

Sec. 3.  The Wildlife Resources Commission shall provide for the sale of foxes taken lawfully pursuant to this act.

Sec. 4.  A season bag limit of 20 applies in the aggregate to all foxes taken during the fox seasons established in this act.

Sec. 5.  Section 2 of Chapter 932 of the 1951 Session Laws is rewritten to read: "This act shall not apply to the hunting of game birds or foxes."

Sec. 6.  This act shall apply only to Hyde County.

Sec. 7.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1989.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 5th day of June, 1989.