A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to authorize the use of trapper identification numbers issued by the wildlife resources commission for use in identifying traps.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 113‑291.6(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	No one may take wild animals by trapping with any steel‑jaw, leghold, or conibear trap unless it:
(1)	Has a jaw spread of not more than seven and one‑half inches.
(2)	Is horizontally offset with closed jaw spread of at least three sixteenths of an inch for a trap with a jaw spread of more than five and one‑half inches. This subdivision does not apply if the trap is set in the water with quick‑drown type of set.
(3)	Is smooth edged and without teeth or spikes.
(4)	Has a weather‑resistant permanent tag attached legibly giving the trapper's name and address or the trapper's trapper identification number as issued by the Wildlife Resources Commission.
A steel‑jaw or leghold trap set on dry land with solid anchor may not have a trap chain longer than eight inches from trap to anchor unless fitted with a shock‑absorbing device approved by the Wildlife Resources Commission."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2013.