Revision: Dec. 16, 2015, midnight
HB 298 - AS INTRODUCED
2015 SESSION
10/06
HOUSE BILL 298
AN ACT relative to the seasons for taking game animals and game birds with the use of bait.
SPONSORS: Rep. Burt, Hills 39; Rep. Spillane, Rock 2; Rep. Rideout, Coos 7; Rep. Parent, Merr?26
COMMITTEE: Fish and Game and Marine Resources
This bill requires that the use of bait in taking game birds or game animals, coyote, and other furbearing animals be permitted during any regular hunting season for such animals.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
15-0691
10/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fifteen
AN ACT relative to the seasons for taking game animals and game birds with the use of bait.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Fish and Game; Baiting; Rulemaking. Amend RSA 207:3-d, I to read as follows:
I. The executive director shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to the [opening and closing of the season for the] practice of baiting for coyote, furbearing animals, game birds, or game animals with the exception of gray squirrel. Such rules shall permit the use of bait to take such animals during the open season therefor, except as provided in RSA 208:22, III.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.