1925_public local laws_560_27
CHAPTER 559 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT IN GUIL- FORD COUNTY OF A GAME COMMISSION AND THE OFFICE OF GAME WARDEN: TO PROVIDE FOR THE BETTER ENFORCEMENT OF THE GAME LAWS AND FOR THE BETTER PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION OF GAME IN GUILFORD COUNTY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES HEREIN SET FORTH. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Dogs running at large. Section two thousand one hundred and thirty-two of chapter thirty-eight of the Consolidated Statutes of nineteen hundred and nineteen is hereby amended and supplemented in its application to Guilford County to read as follows: to wit: It shall be unlawful for the owner or any person having the care of any dog of any breed or pedigree to permit the same to run at large during the breeding season of quail; namely, from May the first to September the first of any year. The fact that any dog shall be ranging in the fields or woods, whether such field or woods be owned by the owner or keeper of the dog or not, shall be prima facie evidence that the owner or keeper of such dog has violated the provisions of this section and the wardens or deputy wardens and owners of land on which such dogs shall be ranging are hereby authorized to impound or kill such dogs; and the owner or keeper of such dog upon conviction of violating this section shall suffer the penalty of this act provided.