Bill 424

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               424
Ratification Number:       276
Act Number                 274
Introducing Body:          Senate
Subject:                   Game zones

(A274, R276, S424)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 50-1-60, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO GAME ZONES, SO AS TO REMOVE ALLENDALE, BAMBERG, BARNWELL, BEAUFORT, COLLETON, HAMPTON AND JASPER COUNTIES FROM THE SIXTH GAME ZONE AND CREATE THE ELEVENTH GAME ZONE COMPRISED OF SUCH COUNTIES; AND TO AMEND THE 1976 CODE BY ADDING SECTIONS 50-11-986 AND 50-11-1225 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE OPEN AND CLOSED SEASONS AND BAG LIMITS FOR GAME ZONE ELEVEN SHALL BE THE SAME AS FOR GAME ZONE SIX.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

State divided into game zones

Section 1. Section 50-1-60 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 626 of 1976, is further amended to read:

"Section 50-1-60. The State is divided for the purpose of game into eleven zones:

(1) The first zone shall comprise the counties of Greenville, Oconee and Pickens;

(2) The second zone shall comprise the counties of Abbeville, Anderson, Edgefield, Greenwood, Laurens, McCormick, Newberry and Saluda;

(3) The third zone shall comprise the counties of Aiken, Calhoun, Lexington and Richland;

(4) The fourth zone shall comprise the counties of Cherokee, Chester, Fairfield, Lancaster, Spartanburg, Union and York;

(5) The fifth zone shall comprise the counties of Chesterfield, Kershaw and Marlboro;

(6) The sixth zone shall comprise the counties of Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester and Orangeburg;

(7) The seventh zone shall comprise the counties of Dillon and Horry;

(8) The eighth zone shall comprise the counties of Darlington, Lee and Sumter;

(9) The ninth zone shall comprise the counties of Clarendon, Georgetown and Williamsburg;

(10) The tenth zone shall comprise the counties of Florence and Marion;

(11) The eleventh zone shall comprise the counties of Allendale, Barnwell, Bamberg, Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton and Jasper."

Hunting season in Game Zone 11

Section 2. The 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"Section 50-11-986. The open and closed seasons for the hunting of game in Game Zone 11 shall be the same as for Game Zone 6."

Bag limits for Game Zone 11.

Section 3. The 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"Section 50-11-1225. The bag limits for Game Zone 11 shall be the same as the bag limits in Game Zone 6."

Time effective

Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 1982.