GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

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SENATE BILL 1345*

Short Title:        Greensboro/Relocation of Wildlife.		(Local)
Sponsors:	Senators Vaughan,  Dorsett; Berger of Rockingham, and Bingham.
Referred to:	State and Local Government.

May 24, 2010

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to exempt the city of greensboro from the requirement that certain wild animals taken under a depredation permit must be euthanized or released on the property where captured and authorize the relocation of those animals to a suitable alternative habitat.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of 15A NCAC 10B.0106(d)(5) or any other provision of law, wild animals of the order Carnivora and beaver that have been taken alive under a depredation permit may be relocated to a suitable alternative habitat with the consent of the landowner of that new habitat.

SECTION 2.  This act applies only to the City of Greensboro.

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.