SEC. 49-7-38. Crossbow hunting licenses for elderly and disabled persons.

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 two (2) physicians 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.

SOURCES: Laws, 1985, ch. 340, eff from and after passage (approved March 19, 1985). Laws, 1994, ch. 398, Sec. 1, eff from and after July 1, 1994. Amended by Laws 2000, Ch. 343, Sec. 1, HB1366, eff. July 1, 2000.

PREVIOUS VERSIONS: Pre-2000