GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION

CHAPTER 71
HOUSE BILL 392

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE REQUIREMENT THAT HUNTERS WEAR BLAZE ORANGE TO ENCOMPASS THE HUNTING OF OTHER TYPES OF GAME.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 113-291.8(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Any person hunting game animals other than foxes, bobcats, raccoons, and opossum, or hunting upland game birds other than wild turkeys, with the use of firearms, must wear a cap or hat on his head made of hunter orange material or an outer garment of hunter orange visible from all sides.  Hunter orange material is a material that is a daylight fluorescent orange color.
This section does not apply to a landholder, his spouse, or children, who are hunting on land held by the landholder. This subsection shall be enforced by warning ticket only until October 1, 1992, with respect to those hunting rabbit, squirrel, grouse, pheasant, and quail."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1991.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of May, 1991.

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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives