FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 720

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES RUZICKA (Sponsor), HOBBS, TILLEY, FUNDERBURK, BRUNS, DUSENBERG, GRISAMORE, JONES (89), WOOD, LIPKE, MAY, SCHOELLER AND COX (Co-sponsors).

                  Read 1st time February 1, 2007 and copies ordered printed.

D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

1904L.01I

AN ACT

To repeal section 252.041, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to hunter orange requirements, with penalty provisions.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Section 252.041, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 252.041, to read as follows:

            252.041. Any person hunting [deer] during [a] certain firearms deer-hunting [season] seasons as designated by commission rules and regulations shall wear a cap or hat, and a shirt, vest or coat with the outermost color of daylight fluorescent orange, blaze orange or hunter orange, which must be plainly visible from all sides while being worn. Any person violating rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this section shall be guilty of an infraction.

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