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2008 SESSION

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SB 263 Hunting dogs; carrying weapons on another person's property to retrieve prohibited.

Introduced by: R. Creigh Deeds | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

Retrieving hunting dogs.  Requires the revocation of the hunting license for the current and the next hunting seasons and allows the forfeiture of the firearm or bow and arrow of any person who is convicted of carrying such weapons and hunting on another person's property while he is retrieving his hunting dogs, which will be a Class 2 misdemeanor.  In addition refusal to identify oneself when requested by the landowner to do so is raised from a Class 4 to a Class 2 misdemeanor.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Retrieving hunting dogs.  Requires the revocation of the hunting license for the current and the next hunting seasons as well as the forfeiture of the firearm or bow and arrow of any person who is convicted of carrying such weapons on another person's property while he is retrieving his hunting dogs.