Revision: Dec. 14, 2011, midnight
HB 1335 – AS INTRODUCED
2012 SESSION
10/03
HOUSE BILL 1335
AN ACT relative to the authority of the fish and game department to refuse to issue a hunting license.
SPONSORS: Rep. Kreis, Merr 6; Rep. Warden, Hills 7; Rep. Hill, Merr 6; Rep. Okerman, Rock 4; Rep. Giuda, Merr 7; Rep. Swinford, Belk 5; Rep. M. Tremblay, Coos 4
COMMITTEE: Fish and Game and Marine Resources
This bill provides that the fish and game department shall refuse to issue a hunting license only if the person is prohibited under federal or state law from possessing a firearm.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
12-2055
10/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve
AN ACT relative to the authority of the fish and game department to refuse to issue a hunting license.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Hunting Licenses; Refusal; Appeal. Amend RSA 214:17 to read as follows:
214:17 Refusing Licenses; Appeal. The executive director and his or her agents shall refuse to issue any license to hunt if [it appears that] the applicant is [not a suitable person to carry firearms] prohibited under federal or state law from possessing a firearm. Any person who has been refused a license by an agent shall have the right of appeal to the executive director, whose decision, given after hearing, shall be final. Any attempt to secure a license from another [agency] agent, after having been refused by an [agency] agent and before appealing to the executive director, and any attempt to secure a license from any source in the same year that the executive director, on appeal, has decided that the applicant is [not a suitable person to carry firearms] prohibited under federal or state law from possessing a firearm, shall be a violation of the provisions of this chapter.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2013.