Senate Bill No. 597
(By Senator Love and Dawson)
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[Introduced February 21, 2000; referred to the Committee
on Natural Resources.]
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A BILL to amend article two, chapter twenty of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated section five-e,
relating to requiring the director of the division of natural
resources to allow the hunting of antlered deer, by
muzzle-loading firearms only, on the Saturday before
Thanksgiving Day.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article two, chapter twenty of the code of West Virginia,
one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by
adding thereto a new section, designated section five-e, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 2. WILDLIFE RESOURCES.
§20-2-5e. Special opening day for firearms deer season.
The Legislature finds and declares that a large percentage of
its residents work Monday through Friday, and that the state's
public school system is normally open and operating on those same
days. Therefore, to afford students and workers across the state
an opportunity to deer hunt without missing a day of school or
work, the director shall permit the hunting of antlered deer, by
muzzle-loading firearms only, on the Saturday preceding
Thanksgiving Day.
The director shall propose rules for legislative approval in
accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter
twenty-nine-a of this code to implement the provisions of this
section.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the director of
the Division of Natural Resources to allow the hunting of antlered
deer, by muzzle-loading firearms only, on the Saturday preceding
Thanksgiving Day.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.