SB147 Alabama 2016 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Rusty Glover
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2016
Title: Hunting, nighttime hunting, to be authorized by rule of Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources, nighttime hours further defined for Chapter 11, Title 9, Sec. 9-11-235 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, nighttime hunting of protected birds and animals is generally prohibited unless otherwise specially provided by law.
Nighttime hunting of raccoons and opossums may be authorized pursuant to rule of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
This bill would prohibit nighttime hunting of protected birds and animals unless authorized by rule of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. The bill would also clarify the definition of nighttime hours and delete references to nighttime hunting of raccoons and opossums.
Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.
Subjects: Game and Fish