Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:3583 Ratification Number:130 Act Number:67 Primary Sponsor:Rhoad Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Fox hunting enclosures Date Bill Passed both Bodies:19930428 Computer Document Number:NO5/8916BD.93 Governor's Action:S Date of Governor's Action:19930514 Introduced Date:19930302 Last History Body:------ Last History Date:19930514 Last History Type:Act No. 67 Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Rhoad Type of Legislation:General Bill
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN Leg Involved
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3583 ------ 19930514 Act No. 67
3583 ------ 19930514 Signed by Governor
3583 ------ 19930511 Ratified R 130
3583 Senate 19930428 Read third time, enrolled for
ratification
3583 Senate 19930427 Read second time
3583 Senate 19930422 Committee Report: Favorable 07
3583 Senate 19930407 Introduced, read first time, 07
referred to Committee
3583 House 19930407 Read third time, sent to
Senate
3583 House 19930406 Read second time
3583 House 19930401 Committee Report: Favorable 20
3583 House 19930302 Introduced, read first time, 20
referred to Committee
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(A67, R130, H3583)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 50-11-2480, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO PERSONS EXEMPTED FROM THE REQUIREMENTS OF A FUR DEALER, BUYER, AND PROCESSOR'S LICENSE, SO AS TO INCLUDE PERMITTED PERSONS WHO OWN A FOX HUNTING ENCLOSURE UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS; AND TO REPEAL SECTION 50-11-2580 RELATING TO EXCEPTIONS FROM WILDLIFE AND MARINE RESOURCES DEPARTMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR PERSONS WHO OWN A FOX HUNTING ENCLOSED PRESERVE OR PUP TRAINING FACILITY.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Persons exempted from fur dealer, buyer, and processor's license requirements
SECTION 1. Section 50-11-2480 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 50-11-2480. The following persons are not required to obtain the license provided for in Section 50-11-2470:
(1) a person who acquires not more than five furs, pelts, hides, or whole animals for his own personal use during one season and not for barter, exchange, or sale;
(2) a person licensed under Section 50-11-2475 as a processor;
(3) a taxidermist who possesses a fur, pelt, hide, or whole furbearing animal legally owned by another person which he is holding temporarily solely for the purposes of processing;
(4) a person acquiring furbearing animal carcasses without hides;
(5) a person who owns a fox hunting enclosure and who is permitted annually by the department to purchase live foxes for release into his pen. The foxes must be obtained from a South Carolina licensed commercial trapper and may be obtained only if the foxes were taken lawfully in this State. Record of fox purchases or transfers must be reported annually on forms provided by the department."
Repeal
SECTION 2. Section 50-11-2580 of the 1976 Code is repealed.
Time effective
SECTION 3. This act takes effect July 1, 1993.
Approved the 14th day of May, 1993.