26apr01...0615h

2001 SESSION

01-0268

04/09

HOUSE BILL 760-FN

AN ACT relative to the use of silencing devices for taking game.

COMMITTEE: Fish and Game

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill clarifies existing law prohibiting the taking of wildlife using a silencing device, and provides that a person who has obtained a depredation permit shall be exempt from this prohibition for the purpose of taking wildlife under the 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

26apr01...0615h

01-0268

04/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One

AN ACT relative to the use of silencing devices for taking game.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

201:1 Fish and Game; Silencing Devices Amended. Amend RSA 207:4 to read as follows:

207:4 Silencing Devices.

I. No person shall [sell, offer for sale, use, have in his possession, any gun,] possess a rifle, pistol, or other firearm fitted or contrived with any silencer or device for deadening the sound of explosion, for the purpose of taking wildlife. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the use of a muzzle brake, polychoke, or compensator.

II. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a person who has obtained a depredation permit issued by the executive director of fish and game from taking wildlife under such permit using a lawfully obtained silencing device.

201:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

(Approved: July 5, 2001)

(Effective Date: July 5, 2001)