A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to establish a nonresident bear/wild boar Dog‑hunting special activity license.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 113‑270.3(b) is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(1b)	Nonresident Bear/Wild Boar Dog-Hunting License - $150.00. This license is valid for use by an individual nonresident and must be procured before hunting, pursuing, or taking any bear or wild boar with dogs within the State. This license is required of any nonresident person who owns dogs that are participating in a hunt of bear or wild boar, controls such dogs in the field, or participates in a hunt using such dogs. Individual nonresident hunters shall be required to obtain a license and shall carry the license on the individual's person while hunting and produce the license upon request by a Wildlife Enforcement Officer.
The Nonresident Bear/Wild Boar Dog-Hunting License established in this subdivision is required in order to hunt bear and wild boar with dogs, and is in addition to a Nonresident Bear/Wild Boar Hunting License established by G.S. 113-270.3(b)(1a), a Nonresident Big Game Hunting License established by G.S. 113-270.3(b)(2), and either a Nonresident State Hunting License established by G.S. 113‑270.2(c)(6), or a Nonresident Lifetime Sportsman License established by G.S. 113-270.1D(b)(4).
Nonresident Bear/Wild Boar Dog-Hunting Licenses established under this subdivision shall be issued in the order that applications are received, up to a maximum of 1,500 such licenses during a calendar year."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 113‑294 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(o)	Any person who is a nonresident of this State and who hunts bear or wild boar with dogs in a hunting party without first obtaining a Nonresident Bear/Wild Boar Dog-Hunting License required by G.S. 113-270.3(b)(1b) is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor, and upon conviction the Wildlife Resources Commission shall suspend any hunting licenses issued to that person for one year."
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2003.