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Show Hunters Urged to Observe Law When Hunting Fish and Game law enforcement enforce-ment officials urge all deer hunters going afield this Saturday Satur-day to observe the laws and respect re-spect the rights of others. Each year several arrests are made during the deer hunt for violations of the deer proclamation. proclam-ation. Most frequent violations are: carrying a loaded firearm in a vehicle, failure to tag the deer, failure to properly validate vali-date the tag by cutting out the proper dates and sex, and improper im-proper use of license or permit. A new law, introduced last year, makes it unlawful for any person to throw or cast the rays of any spotlight or other artific- ial light upon any game animal while having in his possession any firearm or other weapon whereby the animal could be killed. Hunters should obtain a proclamation pro-clamation and read it carefully before going afield. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Sportsmen who ignore "No Trespassing" signs this fall may lose their hunting and fishing fish-ing privileges for a year. Under provisions of a new law passed by the last Legislature, Legisla-ture, persons convicted of trespassing tres-passing shall have their license revoked for a period of a year. In addition the minimum fine for this offense is $50.00. |