07 LC
25 4968S
The
Senate Natural Resources and the Environment Committee offered the following
substitute to HB 239:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Title 27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to game and
fish, so as to change certain provisions relating to rules and regulations of
the Board of Natural Resources used to establish game and fish criminal
violations; to change certain provisions relating to wild animals for which
licenses or permits are required; to change certain provisions relating to the
unlawful enticement of game; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting
laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Title
27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to game and fish, is
amended by revising Code Section 27-1-39, relating to rules and regulations of
the Board of Natural Resources used to establish game and fish criminal
violations, as follows:
"27-1-39.
Notwithstanding
any other law to the contrary, for purposes of establishing criminal violations
of the rules and regulations promulgated by the Board of Natural Resources as
provided in this title, the
terms
term
'rules and regulations' shall mean those rules and regulations of the Board of
Natural Resources in force and effect on
January 1,
2006
January 1,
2007."
SECTION
2.
Said
title is further amended by revising subparagraph (b)(1)(Q) of Code Section
27-5-5, relating to wild animals for which licenses or permits are required, as
follows:
"(Q)
Order Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates) - All species except Bison bison
(buffalo),
Bubalus bubalis (water buffalo), and Llama
guanicoe, L. glama, and L. pacos (llamas);"
SECTION
3.
Said
title is further amended by revising subsections (a) and (b) of Code Section
27-3-9, relating to the unlawful enticement of game, as follows:
"(a)
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, expose, deposit, distribute, or
scatter any corn, wheat, or other grains, salts, apples, or other feeds or bait
so as to constitute a lure or attraction or enticement for any game bird or game
animal on or over any area where hunters are or will be hunting; provided,
however, that
is
the
prohibition of this subsection shall not apply to use of feeds for deer and
it shall be lawful to hunt deer within the
vicinity of such feeds
if the
hunter is at least 200 yards away from and not within sight of the feed or
bait.
(b)
Except as otherwise provided by
subsection (a)
of this Code section or other law or
regulation, it shall be unlawful for any person to hunt any game bird or game
animal upon, over, around, or near any place where any such feed or bait has
been placed, exposed, deposited, distributed, or scattered so as to constitute a
lure, attraction, or enticement to such birds or animals. It shall also be
unlawful to hunt any game animal or game bird upon, over, around, or near any
such place for a period of ten days following the complete removal of all such
feed or bait."
SECTION
4.
This
Act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor or upon its
becoming law without such approval.
SECTION
5.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.