MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1998 Regular Session

To: Wildlife and Fisheries

By: Senator(s) Tollison

Senate Bill 2674

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 49-7-38, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF PHYSICIANS REQUIRED TO CERTIFY DISABILITY FOR CROSSBOW LICENSE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES. 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. Section 49-7-38, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

49-7-38. The commission is hereby authorized and empowered to issue a special license to hunt deer and small game with a crossbow to any person sixty-five (65) years of age or older or to any person having a disability which totally and permanently prevents the person from using a long bow or other conventional archery equipment as first certified by one (1) physician duly licensed to practice medicine in the state. The commission shall designate the fee for the license. The commission shall set the crossbow season for small game. A special licensee under this section may take deer with a crossbow during any season on deer.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.