Sponsored by:
Senator JOSEPH M. KYRILLOS, JR.
District 13 (Middlesex and Monmouth)
Senator STEPHEN M. SWEENEY
District 3 (Salem, Cumberland and Gloucester)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator O'Toole
SYNOPSIS
Authorizes hunting of game animals every day of the week during hunting season.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning hunting and amending R.S.23:4-24.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. R.S. 23:4-24 is amended to read as follows:
23:4-24. [No person shall hunt with a hound or with firearms or weapons of any kind, or carry a gun in the woods or fields or on the waters on Sunday, under a penalty of $20.00 for each offense; except that this section shall not apply to any person hunting raccoon between midnight on Saturday and sunrise on Sunday during the season prescribed in section 23:4-1 of this Title or to a person possessing a valid and proper rifle permit licensed to trap fur-bearing animals pursuant to the provisions of R.S.23:3-1 using a .22 caliber rifle and .22 caliber short rimfire cartridges to humanely dispatch legally trapped animals. This section shall not prevent farm land owners, lessees actually occupying or farming the land, members of their immediate families, or their farm employees from hunting and destroying at any time and in any manner crows, woodchuck, fox and vermin on that land.] Hunting of any game animal shall be permitted every day of the week, including Sundays, during any season prescribed pursuant to the State Fish and Game Code for the hunting of that animal.
(cf: P.L.1996, c.97, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect January 1 next following the date of enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill would authorize the hunting of any game animal every day of the week, including Sundays, during any season prescribed pursuant to the State Fish and Game Code for the hunting of that animal.