NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 608

SENATE BILL 160

 

 

AN ACT TO REGULATE HUNTING OF EUROPEAN WILD BOAR IN AVERY, BURKE, CALDWELL AND WATAUGA COUNTIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. European wild boar, both male and female, may be lawfully hunted and taken in the Counties of Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell and Watauga Counties subject to the following conditions:

(1)       Open season shall be the same as the season prescribed for hunting bear in said counties;

(2)       Bag limits shall be one per day, one in possession, and two per season;

(3)       Boar may be taken only in the daytime, between sunrise and sunset;

(4)       Boar may be taken only by means of rifles larger than .22 calibre or shotguns when loaded with buckshot or rifled slugs.

(5)       No trapping or snaring shall be allowed; and

(6)       The use of dogs shall be allowed.

Sec. 2. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to prohibit the killing of European wild boar at any time when such animals are destroying crops on the land owned or leased by the person killing such boar.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of May, 1965.