Reference is to Printer's Date 2/25/16 -H.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION:
/ SECTION ( ). Section 50-11-710(A) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 218 of 2010, is further amended to read:
/ (A) Night hunting in this State is
unlawful except that:
(1)
Raccoons, opossums, foxes, mink, and skunk may be hunted
at night; however, they may not be hunted with artificial lights
except when treed or cornered with dogs, and may not be hunted
with buckshot or any shot larger than a number four, or any
rifle ammunition larger than a twenty-two rimfire.
(2)
Feral hogs may be hunted at night with or without the aid
of bait, electronic calls, artificial light, or night vision
devices:
(a)
at any time of the year with a bow and arrow other than a
crossbow, or pistol having iron sights, a barrel length not
exceeding nine inches, and which is not equipped with a
butt-stock, scope, or laser site;
(b) at any time of the
year under authority of and pursuant to the conditions contained
in a depredation permit issued by the department pursuant to
Section 50-11-2570; and
(c) from the last day
of February to the first day of July of that same year with any
legal firearm, bow and arrow, or crossbow when notice is given
to the department pursuant to subsection (D). When hunting at
night with a center fire rifle pursuant to this item:
(i) a hunter using
supersonic center fire ammunition must hunt from an elevated
position at least ten feet from the ground;
(ii) a hunter using
subsonic center fire ammunition is not required to hunt from an
elevated position provided that he is not carrying supersonic
center fire ammunition for the same rifle.
(3) Coyotes and
armadillos may be hunted at night with or without the aid of
bait, electronic calls, artificial light, or night vision
devices:
(a) at any time of the
year with bow and arrow other than a crossbow, a rifle, a
shotgun with shot size no larger than a BB, or a pistol of any
caliber having iron sights, a barrel length not exceeding nine
inches, and which is not equipped with a butt-stock, scope, or
laser light;
(b) at any time of the
year under authority of and pursuant to the conditions contained
in a depredation permit issued by the department pursuant to
Section 50-11-2570; and
(c) from the
last day of February to the first day of July year
round of that same year with any legal firearm, bow and
arrow, or crossbow when notice is given to the department
pursuant to subsection (D), including on Wildlife
Management Areas pursuant to a Wildlife Management Area
permit. When hunting at night with a center fire rifle
pursuant to this item:
(i) a hunter using
supersonic center fire ammunition must hunt from an elevated
position at least ten feet from the ground;
(ii) a hunter using
subsonic center fire ammunition is not required to hunt from an
elevated position provided that he is not carrying supersonic
center fire ammunition for the same rifle. /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.