Local Laws AND INFORMATION
Caswell • Hunt deer from the surface or right-of-way of a public road. • It is unlawful for a person to take wildlife or attempt to take wildlife on the land of an- other, or fish on the land of another, without having on one’s person while hunting or fish- ing the written permission, signed and dated for the current hunting and fishing season. • It is unlawful for a person to take wildlife or attempt to take wildlife while under the influence of an impairing substance. Catawba • Hunt, take or kill or attempt to hunt, take or kill any animal or bird on or from the right- of-way of any public road. Chatham • Hunt with a firearm from the surface or right- of-way of a public road. • Hunt with a firearm or bow and arrow or possess same, except with express written permission, dated within the previous 12 months, of the landowner or lessee. • Permit a minor under 16 to possess a firearm, unless the child is under the supervision of parents or guardian. • Possess a loaded firearm on the land of an- other while under the influence of an impair- ing substance.
Camden • Hunt deer with a rifle, except from a stand eight feet high located on land owned or leased by the hunter or on another’s land with the owner’s permission. • Set a Conibear®-type 330 or 220 trap or a No. 2 leghold steel trap, except in water where beaver or otter may be lawfully taken. • Hunt from the right-of-way of S.R. 1239 or of S.R. 1224 from the county line to S.R. 1239. • Hunt or discharge a firearm from, on or across S.R. 1205. • To discharge or cause to be discharged any firearm within one-half mile of any public or private school, toward any public or private school, or to cause any projectile discharged from a firearm to enter any public or private school grounds for any reason. Carteret • Set a steel trap or Conibear®-type trap, or take an animal therefrom, on another’s land without a written lease authorizing trapping. • Take migratory waterfowl within 500 yards of another’s permanent hunting location without permission of the landholder upon whose land the waterfowl is taken. • Hunt deer from a public road adjoining lands of others without written permission of the owners or lessees.
Cherokee • To take or kill any wild animal or wild bird with the use of a firearm or to discharge a firearm from, on, or across the right-of-way of a public road, street, highway or other public vehicular area. Chowan • Hunt waterfowl on N.C. 32 or on any road south thereof between the Albemarle Sound bridge and the Edenton City Limits. • Take a bird or animal within Arrowhead Beach subdivision, Cape Colony subdivi- sion or Chowan Beach subdivision. • Hunt deer, except by still hunting, south of U.S. 17 and U.S. 17 Business and east of a line from the intersection of U.S. 17 Business and the western city limits of Edenton due south to Albemarle Sound. • Hunt on the land of another without written permission of owner or lessee; permission to be dated within one year. • Hunt with or possess a centerfire rifle on the land of another or discharge same on, over or across another’s land without having on one’s person, written permission dated within one year. • Hunt with or discharge a firearm or bow and arrow from, to or across any state-maintained road or right-of-way. • To hunt with a centerfire rifle, unless the barrel of the rifle is at least eight feet above ground level.
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