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H. 3563
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Reps. Goldfinch and Pitts
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Introduced in the House on February 11, 2015
Currently residing in the House Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs
Summary: Deer hunting
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number
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2/11/2015 House Introduced and read first time (House Journal-page 7)
2/11/2015 House Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources
and Environmental Affairs (House Journal-page 7)
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
TO AMEND SECTION 50-11-310, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO OPEN SEASON FOR ANTLERED DEER IN THE VARIOUS GAME ZONES THROUGHOUT THE STATE AND HUNTING AND TAKING OF DEER, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT WITH CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS IT IS UNLAWFUL TO PURSUE DEER WITH DOGS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 50-11-310 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 227 of 2014, is further amended by adding the following appropriately lettered subsection:
"( ) It is unlawful to pursue deer with dogs except during the prescribed season for hunting deer on tracts of at least seven hundred fifty contiguous acres which are owned by the person pursuing deer with dogs or which the person pursuing deer with dogs has the written permission of the owner or owners thereof to use for such purposes. However, invitees of this person also may engage in the pursuit of deer with dogs."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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