O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 27-2-4.4 (2019)

Special turkey hunting season for young and mobility impaired hunters

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) As used in this Code section, the term ‘‘mobility impaired person’’ means any person who has been verified by a doctor of medicine currently licensed to practice by the Georgia Composite Medical Board, the State Board of Examiners in Osteopathy, or an equivalent body of another state to have any one of the following permanent conditions:

(1) Dependence ambulation;

upon a wheelchair or similar device for

(2) Hemiplegia;

(3) Monoplegia;

(4) Paraplegia; or

(5) Single-leg amputation above the knee.

(b) The board shall promulgate rules and regulations authorizing the hunting of turkeys during an extended open season to:

(1) Any person who is 16 years of age or younger; or

(2) Any mobility impaired person.

(c) Notwithstanding any provisions of Code Section 27-3-15 to the contrary, such extended season shall be for the weekend prior to the first weekend of the open turkey season, as established by the board.

(d) Such special authorization shall be subject to all other provisions of this title.

History

(Code 1981, § 27-2-4.4, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 538, § 1/HB 207.)

Annotations

Code Commission notes. - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2013, ‘‘Depen-

dence’’ was substituted for ‘‘Dependance’’ in paragraph (a)(1).