NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 809
HOUSE BILL 1331

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 423 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1971 RELATING TO THE TRAPPING AND KILLING OF BEARS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Chapter 423 of the Session Laws of 1971 is hereby amended by rewriting Section 2 thereof to read as follows:
"Sec. 2. G.S. 113-87 is hereby amended by changing the period at the end of the first sentence to a semicolon and by adding the following: 'provided, further, it shall be unlawful to kill a bear unless the same is in the act of committing depredations and nothing contained herein shall authorize the hunting of any bear with dogs during the closed season thereon.'"
Sec. 2.  Chapter 423 of the Session Laws of 1971 is hereby further amended by rewriting Section 3 thereof to read as follows:
"Sec. 3. G.S. 113-126.1 as the same appears in the 1969 Cumulative Supplement to the 1966 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by deleting the second proviso, contained in lines 13 through 16, and by inserting in lieu thereof the following: 'provided further, that nothing contained in this subchapter shall be construed to authorize the hunting of bear with dogs during the closed season thereon.'"
Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of July, 1971.