Concealed Carriers allowed to shoot Feral Swine in Michigan
No comment. I'm shuttin' up on this one. 
Okay just one: They should start in Detroit.
Posted on 06/12/2010 9:20:39 AM PDT by marktwain
STATE OF MICHIGAN
95TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2010
Introduced by Reps. Huckleberry, Tyler, Byrum, Rocca, Hansen, Neumann, Valentine, Espinoza and Terry Brown
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5822
AN ACT to amend 1976 PA 328, entitled “An act to regulate animals running at large; to provide for compensation for damage done by animals running at large; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 1 (MCL 433.11) and by adding section 4a; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1. As used in this act:
(a) “Animals” means cattle, horses, sheep, swine, mules, burros, or goats.
(b) “Owner” means a person who has a right of property in an animal, a person who keeps or harbors an animal or has it in his or her care, or a person who permits an animal to remain on or about the premises occupied by him or her.
(c) “Running at large” refers to an animal not under the control of an owner and not on an owner’s premises.
Sec. 4a. (1) Swine running at large on public or private property are a public nuisance.
(2) A local animal control officer appointed under the dog law of 1919, 1919 PA 339, MCL 287.261 to 287.290, or a law enforcement officer may kill a swine running at large on public or private property.
(3) A person who possesses a license to carry a concealed pistol issued under 1927 PA 372, MCL 28.421 to 28.435, or a valid hunting license for any game issued under part 435 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.43501 to 324.43561, may kill a swine running at large on public property. A person may kill swine running at large on private property if the person is, or is accompanied by or has the permission of, the owner or lessee of the property.
(4) Subsection (3) does not authorize the discharge of a bow and arrow, crossbow, or firearm in an area where the discharge of that weapon, or hunting with that weapon, is prohibited by an ordinance adopted pursuant to part 419 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.41901 to 324.41905.
Enacting section 1. Section 10 of 1976 PA 328, MCL 433.20, is repealed.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
As if they couldnt before?
In most states, feral hogs are considered a nuisance, and no license is required,,,is Michigan different?
Kind of a waste of legislation anyway. People in Michigan have been killing wild hogs all along.
I knew it was a problem down south - but Mich - ? really?
havent seen em in NY yet
In CA we have a season for hunting the damn things. One a day, one in possession except in Monterrey County, the rules are stricter there.
A few years back the PETA freaks cut fences on some of Ted Nugent’s land here in Michigan and turned a dozen European boars loose. Nugent told the neighbors to kill them if they saw them because he would be responsible for damage done.
A friend of mine got one during deer season.
Da-yum - I got excited - thought it was about open season on politicians.
Does this include the People’s Caliphates of Dearbornistan and Detroitistan?
In Arkansas you shoot them and let them lay (Psudo-rabies).
They’re going after wild Muslims?
...in lieu of having a hunting license.
I saw the title and thought it was open season on fat chicks until I read the article.
I think yes. To trap or kill any animal you have to have a valid hunting license.
At first I thought the headline sad *federal* swine.
Concealed Carriers allowed to shoot Feral Swine in Michigan
No comment. I'm shuttin' up on this one.
Okay just one: They should start in Detroit.
Are they defining the word “swine” broadly or narrowly? By my definition the city of Detroit is overrun with feral swine.
“Does this include the People’s Caliphates of Dearbornistan and Detroitistan?”
Yes.
But, only swine on four feet can be shot.
Aw, shucks. At first, I misread the word “feral” for something else.
Feral, not federal...
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