GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1985 SESSION
CHAPTER 179
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE TAKING OF FOXES IN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY DURING SHORT OPEN SEASON.
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 30 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 shall apply only to Rockingham County.
Sec. 6. This act shall become effective October 1, 1985.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of May, 1985.