Bill Text: CA SB1367 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Deer: archery season: concealed firearms.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-09-28 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 711, Statutes of 2012. [SB1367 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB1367-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1367	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 6, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 1, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Fuller

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 4370 of the Fish and Game Code, relating
to hunting.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1367, as amended, Fuller. Deer: archery season: concealed
firearms.
   Existing law establishes an archery season for the taking of deer
with bow and arrow. Existing law prohibits a person taking or
attempting to take deer during that archery season from carrying, or
 have   having  under his or her immediate
control, any firearm of any kind.
   Other existing law generally makes carrying a concealed firearm a
crime, but establishes  a number of   specified
 exceptions, including exceptions for peace officers, honorably
retired peace officers, and hunters and fishermen while engaged in
hunting or fishing.
   This bill would revise that archery provision to authorize a peace
officer, whether active or honorably retired, to carry a firearm
 capable of being concealed  on his or her person while
engaged in the taking of deer with bow and arrow, but would prohibit
taking or attempting to take deer with that firearm.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 4370 of the Fish and Game Code is amended to
read:
   4370.  (a) In every area in which deer may lawfully be taken
during the general open season there is an archery season for the
taking of deer with bow and arrow. The season for each area shall be
as the commission may prescribe, with a minimum interposing interval
of three days immediately preceding the regular open season on deer
in that area. Except as provided in subdivision (b), a person taking
or attempting to take deer during such archery season shall neither
carry, nor have under his or her immediate control, any firearm of
any kind.
   (b) A peace officer listed in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section
830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, whether active or
honorably retired, may carry a firearm capable of being concealed
 on his or her person while engaged in the taking of deer with
bow and arrow in accordance with subdivision (a), but shall not take
or attempt to take deer with the firearm.