2010 Tennessee Code
Title 70 - Wildlife Resources
Chapter 4 - Miscellaneous Regulations
Part 1 - Hunting and Fishing
70-4-124 - Wearing daylight fluorescent orange color while hunting big game required Penalty.
70-4-124. Wearing daylight fluorescent orange color while hunting big game required Penalty.
(a) Every person hunting big game except turkey during the gun hunts proclaimed by the commission shall wear on the upper portion of the body and head outer garments of daylight fluorescent orange color of not less than five hundred (500) square inches and visible from the front and back.
(b) “Daylight fluorescent orange color” means having a dominant wave length between five hundred ninety-five thousandths (.595) and six hundred five thousandths (.605) nanometers, excitation purity of not less than eighty-five percent (85%) and a luminance factor of not less than forty percent (40%).
(c) A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
(d) This section does not apply to a person hunting on that person's own property.
[Acts 1975, ch. 178, §§ 1-3; 1982, ch. 738, § 24; T.C.A., § 51-445; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.]
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