HB 1339 – AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
22Feb2012… 0794h
2012 SESSION
10/09
HOUSE BILL 1339
AN ACT prohibiting agreements for monetary consideration to limit or reserve access to hunting, fishing, and trapping on private land.
SPONSORS: Rep. Mirski, Graf 10; Rep. Duarte, Rock 1; Rep. Hopper, Hills 7
COMMITTEE: Fish and Game and Marine Resources
This bill prohibits a person engaged in hunting, fishing, or trapping from contracting for monetary consideration for the limitation of access or the reservation of rights to enter private lands.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
22Feb2012… 0794h
12-2070
10/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve
AN ACT prohibiting agreements for monetary consideration to limit or reserve access to hunting, fishing, and trapping on private land.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Fish and Game; Interference with Hunting, Fishing, and Trapping; Agreements to Limit Access. Amend RSA 207 by inserting after section 58 the following new section:
207:57-a Agreements to Limit Access.
I. No person authorized to hunt, fish, or trap under this title shall enter into any contract with, lease, or otherwise arrange with a private landowner for monetary consideration for the limiting of access of other persons for hunting, fishing, or trapping, or for the reservation of the right to access to property solely for oneself or one group, with the intent of excluding other persons licensed by the department to hunt, fish, or trap.
II. Any person determined by the executive director to have violated the provisions of paragraph I shall have his or her license to hunt, fish, or trap revoked and he or she may not be granted a license to hunt, fish, or trap for a period of 3 years.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2013.