Revision: Dec. 2, 2019, 2:47 p.m.
HB 1339 - AS INTRODUCED
2020 SESSION
20-2455
08/03
HOUSE BILL 1339
AN ACT relative to damage to crops or livestock done by animals.
SPONSORS: Rep. Pearl, Merr. 26; Rep. Lang, Belk. 4; Rep. Costable, Rock. 3; Rep. Plumer, Belk. 6; Rep. Thompson, Ches. 14; Sen. French, Dist 7; Sen. Giuda, Dist 2
COMMITTEE: Fish and Game and Marine Resources
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ANALYSIS
This bill removes certain requirements on damage caused by wild animals on farms before a person may kill such wild animal without a permit.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
20-2455
08/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty
AN ACT relative to damage to crops or livestock done by animals.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Wildlife Damage Control; Killing by Land Owner of Animal Inflicting Damage. Amend RSA 207:26 to read as follows:
207:26 Killing by Land Owner of Bird or Animal Inflicting Damage. A person may pursue, wound, or kill, on land owned or occupied by such person, any unprotected bird or wild animal which the person finds in the act of doing actual [and substantial] damage to poultry, crops, domestic animals, or the person's property, and may authorize a family member, employee, or other person requested to do so under the provision of a depredation permit issued by the executive director pursuant to RSA 207:22-c, III.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.