GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1987 SESSION

CHAPTER 98
HOUSE BILL 360

AN ACT TO PERMIT THE TAKING OF FOXES IN BEAUFORT 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 from December 1 through January 1 of each year.
Sec. 2.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there is an open season for taking foxes by trapping 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. 3.  A season bag limit of ten applies in the aggregate to all foxes taken during the weapons and trapping seasons established in this act.
Sec. 4.  The Wildlife Resources Commission shall provide for the sale of foxes taken lawfully pursuant to this act.
Sec. 5.  This act applies only to Beaufort County.
Sec. 6.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1987.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of April, 1987.