GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION

CHAPTER 208
HOUSE BILL 881

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH SEASONS FOR HUNTING AND TRAPPING FOXES IN GRANVILLE AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES AND TO ESTABLISH SEASONS FOR HUNTING AND TRAPPING FOXES IN BRUNSWICK COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there is an open season for taking foxes with weapons in Granville County and Franklin County from October 1 through January 31 of each year.
Sec. 2.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there is an open season for taking foxes by trapping in Granville County and Franklin County from October 1 through January 31 of each year.
Sec. 3.  The Wildlife Resources Commission shall provide for the sale of foxes taken lawfully pursuant to Sections 1 and 2 of this act.
Sec. 4.  G.S. 113-291.4(f1) reads as rewritten:
"(f1)	In those counties in which open seasons for taking foxes with weapons and by trapping were established between June 18, 1982, and July 1, 1987, in accordance with the procedure then set forth in subsection (f) of this section, the Wildlife Resources Commission is authorized to continue such seasons from year to year so long as the fox populations of such counties remain adequate to support the resulting harvest.  The counties referred to in this subsection are as follows:  Caswell, Clay, Graham, Henderson, Hyde, Macon, Stokes and Tyrrell."
Sec. 5.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there is an open season for taking foxes with weapons in Brunswick County from December 1 through January 1 of each year.
Sec. 6.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there is an open season for taking foxes by trapping in Brunswick County from January 2 through January 31 of each year.  During this season, all leghold traps set on dry land with solid anchor shall have at least three swivels in the trap chain and no leghold traps larger than size one and one-half may be used.
Sec. 7.  A season bag limit of 30 applies in the aggregate to all foxes taken during the weapons and trapping seasons established in Sections 5 and 6 of this act.
Sec. 8.  The Wildlife Resources Commission shall provide for the sale of foxes taken lawfully pursuant to Sections 5 through 7 of this act.
Sec. 9.  Sections 1 through 3 of this act apply only to Granville and Franklin Counties.  Sections 4 through 8 of this act apply only to Brunswick County.
Sec. 10.  This act becomes effective October 1, 1993.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of June, 1993.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives