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Título 27. GAME AND FISH · Capítulo 3. WILDLIFE GENERALLY · Artículo 1. HUNTING · Parte 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

27-3-1.1. Acts prohibited on wildlife management areas.

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Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

El texto siguiente es la ley tal como la imprime el estado, en inglés.

  1. It shall be unlawful for any person on any wildlife management area owned or operated by the department:

  2. (1)

    To possess a firearm other than a handgun, as such term is defined in Code Section 16-11-125.1, during a closed hunting season for that area unless such firearm is unloaded and stored in a motor vehicle so as not to be readily accessible or to possess a handgun during a closed hunting season for that area unless such person is a lawful weapons carrier as defined in Code Section 16-11-125.1;#

  3. (2)

    To possess a loaded firearm other than a handgun, as such term is defined in Code Section 16-11-125.1, in a motor vehicle during a legal open hunting season for that area or to possess a loaded handgun in a motor vehicle during a legal open hunting season for that area unless such person is a lawful weapons carrier as defined in Code Section 16-11-125.1;#

  4. (3)

    To be under the influence of drugs, intoxicating liquors, beers, or wines. The determination of whether any person is under the influence of drugs or intoxicating liquors, beers, or wines may be made in accordance with Code Section 27-3-7;#

  5. (4)

    To hunt within 50 yards of any road which receives regular maintenance for the purpose of public vehicular access;#

  6. (5)

    To target practice, except where an authorized shooting range is made available by the department, and then only in a manner consistent with the rules for shooting ranges promulgated by the board;#

  7. (6)

    To drive a vehicle around a closed gate, cable, sign, or other structure or device intended to prevent vehicular access to a road entering onto or within such an area;#

  8. (7)

    To hunt within any posted safety zone;#

  9. (8)

    To camp upon or drive a motor vehicle over any permanent pasture or area planted in crops;#

  10. (9)

    While hunting bears in any such area opened to bear hunting, to kill a female bear with a cub or cubs or to kill a cub weighing less than 75 pounds;#

  11. (10)

    To fail to report if he or she kills a deer, bear, or turkey in the manner specified by the rules of the department for that wildlife management area on the date killed to the state game and fish checking station on the area;#

  12. (11)

    To construct any tree stand or to hunt from any tree stand except a portable or natural tree stand; or#

  13. (12)

    To trap except with a special trapping permit issued by the department.#

Las notas siguientes se imprimen con la sección, pero no son ley promulgada (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). Se muestran aparte del texto.

History

Code 1981, § 27-3-1.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 1729, § 8; Ga. L. 1993, p. 91, § 27; Ga. L. 1996, p. 1134, § 1; Ga. L. 2003, p. 140, § 27; Ga. L. 2010, p. 963, § 2-13/SB 308; Ga. L. 2022, p. 74, § 14/SB 319.

Amendments

The 2022 amendment, effective April 12, 2022, substituted “is a lawful weapons carrier as defined in Code Section 16-11-125.1” for “possesses a valid weapons carry license issued pursuant to Code Section 16-11-129” at the end of paragraphs (1) and (2).

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2022, p. 74, § 1/SB 319, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Chairman John Meadows Act.’” Ga. L. 2022, p. 74, § 2/SB 319, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “The General Assembly finds and determines that: “(1) The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution recognizes the right of the people to keep and bear arms and that such right shall not be infringed; and “(2) The people of this state, to perpetuate the principles of free government, insure justice to all, preserve peace, promote the interest and happiness of the citizen and of the family, and transmit to posterity the enjoyment of liberty, provided that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed but that the General Assembly shall have power to prescribe the manner in which arms may be borne.”

Law reviews

For article, “SB 319: Chairman John Meadows Act,” see 39 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 1 (2022).

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Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Texto leído de t27-t30-(v22)-pdf.pdf, Volumen V22, edición 2018, suplemento de 2025, páginas 52 a 54; acción de fusión: replaced; SHA-256 del archivo b54071b79715.