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2007 SESSION

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HB 704 Firearms, discharge of, or hunting; certain local ordinances invalid.

Introduced by: Clarke N. Hogan | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

County ordinances; discharge of firearms and hunting.  Provides that a county may prohibit by ordinance hunting, the discharge of firearms, and the discharge of arrows from bows within one-half mile of a subdivision or in an area so heavily populated as to make hunting dangerous.  However, no ordinance regulating the discharge of firearms or bows may be more restrictive than an ordinance concerning hunting.  Any ordinance adopted after January 1, 1995 concerning the discharge of firearms or hunting that is more restrictive than the provisions of the act is invalid.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Local ordinances; discharge of firearms and hunting.  Provides that any local ordinance governing the discharge of firearms or hunting that was enacted prior to 1995 is invalid.