California

Fish and Game Code - FGC

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• § 3465 — (a) If during the contract period the owner or lessee is divested of the use of the waterfowl habitat subject to the contract, the owner or lessee shall notify the department concurrent with that dive
• § 3466 — The director and the owner or lessee may mutually agree to modify the terms and conditions of a contract under this article as the director may determine to be desirable to carry out the purposes of,
• § 3467 — The California Waterfowl Habitat Preservation Account is hereby created in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund, and the money in the account shall be transferred to the Surplus Money Investment Fund f
• § 3467.5 — The Nesting Bird Habitat Incentive Program Account is hereby created in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund.
• § 3469 — (a) There is established the California Winter Rice Habitat Incentive Program subject to the requirements of this article.
• § 3469.2 — Each contract shall be for an initial term of three years and shall include the following: (a) The designation of the owner of record or the lessee, and the legal description and the assessor’s parcel
• § 3469.4 — If during the contract period the owner or lessee is divested of the use of the waterfowl habitat subject to the contract, the owner or lessee shall notify the department concurrent with that divestme
• § 3469.6 — The director and the owner or lessee may mutually agree to modify the terms and conditions of a contract under this article as the director may determine to be desirable to carry out the purposes of,
• § 3469.8 — The California Winter Rice Habitat Incentive Program Account is hereby created in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund.
• § 3470 — It is the policy of the state to actively encourage the safe and biologically sound management of wildlife resources on California’s public use airports as regulated by the Federal Aviation Administra
• § 3471 — The Legislature recognizes that, in a public use airport’s ongoing efforts to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the traveling public in compliance with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) r
• § 3472 — The taking of birds by a public use airport certificated by the Federal Aviation Administration to operate in California that has obtained, and is in compliance with, a federal depredation permit that
• § 3472.1 — Take is authorized pursuant to this article only to relieve or prevent injurious situations affecting public safety and shall only be performed as part of an integrated wildlife management program tha
• § 3472.2 — A public use airport certificated by the Federal Aviation Administration shall provide to the department any federal depredation permit and all federal reports required pursuant to any federal depreda
• § 3480 — (a) (1) The department shall establish the Nesting Bird Habitat Incentive Program, which may include direct payments or other incentives, to encourage landowners to voluntarily cultivate or retain upl
• § 35 — “Day” means calendar day, and “week” means calendar week.
• § 3500 — (a) Resident game birds are as follows: (1) Doves of the genus Streptopelia, including, but not limited to, spotted doves, ringed turtledoves, and Eurasian collared-doves.
• § 3501 — It is unlawful to use any powerboat, motor vehicle, or airplane to drive any game bird toward another person with the intent that the other person shall take the bird.
• § 3502 — It is unlawful to use any mammal (except a dog) or an imitation of a mammal as a blind in approaching or taking game birds.
• § 3503 — It is unlawful to take, possess, or needlessly destroy the nest or eggs of any bird, except as otherwise provided by this code or any regulation made pursuant thereto.
• § 3503.5 — It is unlawful to take, possess, or destroy any birds in the orders Falconiformes or Strigiformes (birds-of-prey) or to take, possess, or destroy the nest or eggs of any such bird except as otherwise
• § 3504 — Subject to the provisions of this code permitting the sale of domestically raised game birds, it is unlawful to sell or purchase a game bird or nongame bird.
• § 3505 — It is unlawful to take, sell, or purchase any aigrette or egret, osprey, bird of paradise, goura, numidi, or any part of such a bird.
• § 3508 — It is unlawful to break, train, hold field trials with, or practice dogs on any wild game bird or domesticated game bird during the closed season on that bird except as authorized by the commission.
• § 3511 — (a) (1) Except as provided in this section or Section 2081.
• § 3513 — It is unlawful to take or possess any migratory bird as designated in the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.
• § 3514 — Exotic nonresident game birds are those birds of the order Galliformes (pheasant, grouse, quail) which are not established as a wild resident population in this State.
• § 3515 — Exotic nonresident game birds may be released in this State only on prior approval of the commission.
• § 3516 — The commission may adopt such regulations as it deems necessary to govern the release, taking, and possession of exotic nonresident game birds.
• § 355 — (a) The commission may annually adopt regulations pertaining to migratory birds to conform with or to further restrict the rules and regulations prescribed pursuant to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
• § 356 — (a) Migratory game birds may be taken in conformity with federal laws and regulations and the regulations of the commission adopted pursuant to this article.
• § 357 — The president of the commission may be a member ex officio of the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission created by the act of Congress known as the “Migratory Bird Conservation Act.
• § 3660 — It is unlawful for any person to have in his possession the carcass, in such condition that the sex or species cannot be easily determined, of any pheasant while in the field or forest or while upon a
• § 3680 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any person who purposely takes any racing pigeon that at the time of taking is registered with a recognized organization is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• § 3681 — (a) In Districts 8 and 9, it is unlawful to take a duck or goose below the incoming or outgoing tidewater’s edge, or from any blind, boat, floating device, island, islet, or exposed tidal flat.
• § 3682.1 — (a) It is unlawful for any person, except a person licensed pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 3031, to take any upland game bird species without first procuring an upland game bi
• § 3682.2 — (a) Upon full implementation of the Automated License Data System, the department shall continue to prepare, or have prepared, upland game bird stamps depicting upland game birds.
• § 3683 — Upland game bird species include both of the following: (a) All of the following resident game birds: (1) Doves of the genus Streptopelia, including, but not limited to, spotted doves, ringed turtledo
• § 3684 — (a) The Upland Game Bird Account is hereby established within the Fish and Game Preservation Fund.
• § 3686 — Projects authorized pursuant to Section 3684 shall be governed by Section 1501.
• § 37 — “Department” means the Department of Fish and Wildlife.
• § 3700.1 — (a) It is unlawful for any person, except a person licensed pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 3031, to take a duck or goose without first procuring a state duck hunting validatio
• § 3700.2 — (a) Upon full implementation of the Automated License Data System, the department shall continue to prepare, or have prepared, state duck stamps depicting migratory waterfowl.
• § 3701 — (a) All funds derived from the sale of state duck hunting validations and state duck stamps, and related items authorized by subdivision (g) of Section 3700.
• § 3702 — Funds deposited in the State Duck Stamp Account shall be used for projects or endowments approved by the commission for the purpose of protecting, preserving, restoring, enhancing, and developing migr
• § 3702.1 — An advisory committee, as determined by the department, that includes interested nonprofit organizations that have goals and objectives directly related to the management and conservation of waterfowl
• § 3702.5 — The department may permit individual artists to sell a limited number of prints of duck stamp related artwork or posters.
• § 3703 — Before the commission may consider any project which proposes the use of funds from the State Duck Stamp Account, the department shall analyze such project and provide the commission with recommendati
• § 3704 — Two dollars and twenty-five cents ($2.
• § 3704.5 — Waterfowl projects authorized pursuant to Sections 3460 and 3702 shall be governed by Section 1501.
• § 3705 — Before allocating funds to any project to be undertaken outside the state, or outside the United States, the commission shall secure evidence that the project is acceptable to the government agency ha
• § 375 — The commission may negotiate the terms of a compact between the States of Arizona and California with any appropriate officials of the State of Arizona in relation to reciprocal privileges and license
• § 3800 — (a) All birds occurring naturally in California that are not resident game birds, migratory game birds, or fully protected birds are nongame birds.
• § 3801 — (a) Except as provided in Section 3000 and this section, the following nongame birds may be taken or possessed at any time: (1) English sparrow (Passer domesticus).
• § 3801.5 — Nongame birds not covered by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act which are found to be injuring growing crops or property may be taken by the owner or tenant of the premises.
• § 3801.6 — (a) Except as otherwise provided in this code or regulations adopted pursuant to this code, it is unlawful to possess the carcass, skin, or other part of any nongame bird.
• § 3802 — The department may enter into cooperative contracts with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in the Department of the Interior in relation to the control or eradication of predatory birds, and
• § 3803 — The department may take any individual bird, or birds of any species, that, in its opinion, are unduly preying upon any species of bird, mammal, reptile, amphibian, or fish.
• § 3806 — In order to aid in relieving widespread waterfowl depredation of agricultural crops, the department may issue licenses under regulations which the commission may prescribe to permit the feeding of mig
• § 3850 — The department may carry out a California condor preservation project which has the following objectives: (a) Habitat protection, consistent with the department’s existing legal authority.
• § 3851 — The department, jointly with the federal-state condor recovery team established pursuant to the federal Endangered Species Act shall develop a plan to respond to the objectives in Section 3850.
• § 3852 — The department shall provide funds to the Zoological Society of San Diego and to the Los Angeles Zoo for a condor breeding program on the grounds of each zoo.
• § 3853 — In addition to the programs in Section 3852, a condor release program administered by the department and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service may be contracted to the Zoological Society of San
• § 3854 — Not more than 10 percent of the funds provided to the zoos under this chapter may be used for administrative costs of the program.
• § 3855 — Both the breeding program and the release program, if authorized by the department, shall meet criteria established by the department and shall be monitored by the department.
• § 3856 — The department shall include copies of the biannual reports from the zoos in the annual report to the Legislature on the status of listed species required in Section 2079.
• § 3857 — To the extent possible, the department shall seek private sector funding and any federal funds which may be available to augment state funds for the purposes of this chapter.
• § 3858 — (a) For purposes of this section, the term “Northern California Condor Restoration Program” means the California condor restoration program in northern California associated with the California Condor
• § 3860 — This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Avian Influenza Wildlife Surveillance Act.
• § 3861 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Avian influenza and other emerging diseases of wildlife are a serious threat to the people of California.
• § 3862 — The Natural Resources Agency, in consultation with the department, the Department of Food and Agriculture, the State Department of Public Health, the Office of Emergency Services, and the University o
• § 3863 — (a) The Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency shall formally establish the Avian Influenza Working Group to assist in the development of the plan described in Section 3862.
• § 39 — “Director” means the Director of Fish and Wildlife.
• § 390 — The commission, subject to the approval of the Attorney General, may enter into reciprocal agreements with corresponding state or county official agencies of adjoining states pertaining to the establi
• § 391 — The department may exchange or release to any appropriate federal, state, or local agency or agencies in other states, for purposes of law enforcement, any information collected or maintained by the d
• § 392 — (a) The director, or a designated representative, may enter into reciprocal operational agreements with authorized representatives of any Oregon, Nevada, or Arizona state law enforcement agency, inclu
• § 393 — (a) A regularly employed law enforcement officer of an Oregon, Nevada, or Arizona state law enforcement agency, including, but not limited to, the Oregon State Police, the Nevada Department of Wildlif
• § 395 — (a) The commission may adopt regulations for the possession or training, and the capture, importation, exportation, or intrastate transfer, of any bird in the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes (bi
• § 3950 — (a) Game mammals are: deer (genus Odocoileus), elk (genus Cervus), prong-horned antelope (genus Antilocapra), black and brown or cinnamon bears (genus Euarctos), mountain lions (genus Felis), jackrabb
• § 3950.1 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 3950 or any other provision of this code, the mountain lion (genus Felis) shall not be listed as, or considered to be, a game mammal by the department or the commission.
• § 3951 — The commission may authorize the taking of tule elk pursuant to Section 332.
• § 3952 — The department shall develop a statewide elk management plan, consistent with the state’s wildlife policy as set forth in Section 1801.
• § 3953 — (a) The Big Game Management Account is hereby established within the Fish and Game Preservation Fund.
• § 396 — (a) The falconry license shall be valid for a license year beginning on July 1 and ending on the last day of June of the next succeeding calendar year.
• § 3960 — (a) As used in this section: (1) “Pursue” means pursue, run, or chase.
• § 3960.2 — (a) As used in this section, the terms “bear” and “pursue” have the same meanings as defined in Section 3960.
• § 3960.4 — (a) As used in this section, the terms “bear” and “pursue” have the same meanings as defined in Section 3960.
• § 3960.6 — (a) As used in this section, the terms “bear” and “pursue” have the same meanings as defined in Section 3960.
• § 3961 — (a) Whenever an employee of the department is not present to carry out the provisions of Section 3960 with respect to any dog inflicting injury or immediately threatening to inflict injury to any deer
• § 3965 — (a) Exotic game mammals include wild pigs, including feral pigs and European wild boar (genus Sus) described in Section 4650.
• § 397 — (a) On or before three years after the date the Legislature makes an appropriation for purposes of this section, and then again on or before eight years after the date the Legislature makes an appropr
• § 398 — The base year for determining the inflationary index applied to the fee established by Section 396 shall be the 1984–85 fiscal year.
• § 399 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the commission, when adopting, amending, or repealing a regulation pursuant to authority vested in it by this code, may, after at least one hearing, a
• § 4 — Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of this code.
• § 400 — The State of California hereby assents to the provisions of the act of Congress entitled “An act to provide that the United States shall aid the states in wildlife-restoration projects, and for other
• § 4000 — The following are fur-bearing mammals: pine marten, fisher, mink, river otter, gray fox, red fox, kit fox, raccoon, beaver, badger, and muskrat.
• § 4001 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this code or regulations adopted pursuant to this code, it is unlawful for any person to trap any fur-bearing mammal for purposes of recreation or commerce in fu
• § 4002 — Fur-bearing mammals may be taken only with a trap, a firearm, bow and arrow, poison under a proper permit, or with the use of dogs.
• § 4003 — It is unlawful to use poison to take fur-bearing mammals without a permit from the department.
• § 4004 — It is unlawful to do any of the following: (a) Use a steel-jawed leghold trap, or use any trap with saw-toothed or spiked jaws.
• § 4005 — (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, every person who traps fur-bearing mammals or nongame mammals, designated by the commission, shall procure a trapping license.
• § 4006 — (a) A trapping license shall be issued as follows: (1) To any resident of this state over the age of 16 years upon payment of a base fee of forty-five dollars ($45), as adjusted under Section 713.
• § 4007 — A trapping license authorizes the person to whom it is issued to take fur-bearing mammals and nongame mammals for a term of one year from July 1st, or if issued after the beginning of the term, for th
• § 4008 — No trapping license shall be issued to any applicant within one year following the expiration of any trapping license previously issued to such applicant unless the applicant has submitted to the depa
• § 4009 — It is unlawful to remove or disturb the trap of any licensee while the trap is being used by the licensee on public land or on land where the licensee has permission to trap.
• § 4009.5 — The commission may adopt regulations as it determines to be necessary to regulate the taking of fur-bearing mammals or nongame mammals taken under a trapping license.
• § 401 — The State of California hereby assents to the provisions of the act of Congress entitled “An act to provide that the United States shall aid the states in fish restoration and management projects, and
• § 4010 — The provisions of this chapter do not apply to, or prohibit the propagation of, fur-bearing mammals which are confined in accordance with the regulations of the commission.
• § 4011 — (a) Fur-bearing mammals, game mammals, and nongame mammals, when involved in dangerous disease outbreaks, may be taken by duly constituted officials of any of the following: (1) The United States Depa
• § 4012 — It is unlawful to take any red fox for profitmaking purposes.
• § 4030 — (a) Subject to an appropriation by the Legislature for these purposes, there shall be in the department a program to promote beaver restoration across California by advising on policies and guidelines
• § 41 — “District” means fish and game district.
• § 4150 — (a) A mammal occurring naturally in California that is not a game mammal, exotic game mammal, fully protected mammal, or fur-bearing mammal is a nongame mammal.
• § 4151 — Any house cat (Felis domesticus) found within the limits of any fish and game refuge is a nongame mammal, unless it is in the residence of its owner or upon the grounds of the owner adjacent to such r
• § 4152 — (a) Except as provided in Section 4005, nongame mammals and black-tailed jackrabbits, muskrats, subspecies of red fox that are not the native Sierra Nevada red fox (Vulpes vulpes necator), and red fox
• § 4153 — (a) The department may enter into cooperative agreements with any agency of the state or the United States for the purpose of controlling harmful nongame mammals.
• § 4154 — (a) The department may enter into cooperative contracts with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in the Department of the Interior for the purpose of controlling or eradicating any nongame mam
• § 4155 — (a) Beginning January 1, 2014, it shall be unlawful to trap a bobcat, or attempt to do so, or to sell or export a bobcat taken in the area surrounding Joshua Tree National Park, defined as follows: Ea
• § 4156 — (a) Except as provided in Section 4157 and notwithstanding any other law, it is unlawful for a person to hunt, trap, or otherwise take a bobcat.
• § 4157 — (a) Upon appropriation of funds by the Legislature for purposes of this section, commencing January 1, 2025, the commission may open a bobcat hunting season in any area determined by the commission to
• § 4158 — (a) Before opening a bobcat hunting season pursuant to Section 4157, the department, in consultation with other relevant state agencies, local governments, federal agencies, nongovernmental organizati
• § 4180 — (a) Except as provided for in Section 4005, fur-bearing mammals that are injuring property may be taken at any time and in any manner in accordance with this code or regulations made pursuant to this
• § 4180.1 — (a) It is unlawful to do either of the following to an immature depredator mammal while it is in its den: (1) Use a snare, hook, or barbed wire to remove the mammal.
• § 4180.2 — As used in this article, “wild pigs” has the meaning set forth in Section 4650.
• § 4181 — (a) Except as provided in Section 4181.
• § 4181.1 — (a) Any bear that is encountered while in the act of inflicting injury to, molesting, or killing, livestock may be taken immediately by the owner of the livestock or the owner’s employee if the taking
• § 4181.2 — For the purposes of this article relating to damage caused by wild pigs, “damage” means loss or harm resulting from injury to person or property.
• § 4181.5 — (a) Any owner or tenant of land or property that is being damaged or destroyed or is in immediate danger of being damaged or destroyed by deer may apply to the department for a permit to kill those de
• § 4185 — In any district or part of a district within San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, bears may be taken at any time with traps within a good and substantial fence, as such fence is described in Section
• § 4186 — Nothing in this code prohibits the owner or tenant of land, or any person authorized in writing by that owner or tenant, from taking cottontail or brush rabbits during any time of the year when damage
• § 4188 — (a) If a landowner or tenant applies for a permit under Section 4181 to take wild pigs or wild turkeys, or under Section 4181.
• § 4190 — The department shall tag, brand, or otherwise identify in a persistent and distinctive manner any large depredatory mammal relocated by, or relocated with the approval of, the department for game mana
• § 43 — “Ecosystem-based management” means an environmental management approach relying on credible science, as defined in Section 33, that recognizes the full array of interactions within an ecosystem, inclu
• § 4301 — (a) As used in this section, “deer” includes any animal of the family Cervidae.
• § 4302 — Any person taking a deer shall retain possession of that portion of the deer’s head that in adult males normally bears the antlers, during the open season for that deer and for 15 days thereafter, and
• § 4303 — The skin or hide of any deer lawfully taken may be sold, purchased, tanned, or manufactured into articles for sale.
• § 4304 — (a) No person shall capture or destroy any deer and detach or remove from the carcass only the head, hide, antlers, or horns.
• § 4330 — It is unlawful to take any deer without first procuring a deer tag or permit authorizing the taking of that deer.
• § 4331 — The commission may determine the design and makeup of the deer tag and prescribe the procedures for issuance and use.
• § 4332 — (a) Any resident of this state, 12 years of age or over, who possesses a valid hunting license, may procure one tag for the taking of one deer by one person during the current license year, upon payme
• § 4333 — Tags are valid only during that portion of the current hunting license year in which deer may be taken or possessed in any area.
• § 4334 — (a) The commission shall annually direct the department to authorize, pursuant to Section 1054.
• § 4336 — (a) The person to whom a deer tag has been issued shall carry the tag while hunting deer.
• § 4340 — (a) Any person who is convicted of a violation of any provision of this code, or of any rule, regulation, or order made or adopted under this code, relating to deer shall forfeit his or her deer tags,
• § 4341 — Any person legally killing a deer in this state shall have the tag for that deer countersigned by a person employed by the department, a person designated for that purpose by the commission, a notary
• § 4370 — (a) In every area in which deer may lawfully be taken during the general open season there is an archery season for the taking of deer with bow and arrow.
• § 4371 — The provisions of this code relating to deer shall be applicable to the taking of deer with bow and arrow.
• § 45 — “Fish” means a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or part, spawn, or ovum of any of those animals.
• § 450 — It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Legislature to encourage the conservation, restoration, maintenance, and utilization of California’s wild deer populations.
• § 4500 — (a) It is unlawful to take any marine mammal except in accordance with provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (Chapter 31 (commencing with Section 1361) of Title 16 of the United State
• § 4501 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that several types of nonpoint source pollution are harmful to sea otters, and that scientific studies point to links between cat feces, the pathogen T-gondii, a
• § 4502.5 — This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Orca Protection Act.
• § 451 — As used in this chapter “general deer hunting season” means the annual season for the area in question as is set by the commission under its general regulatory powers, or set by statute, for the takin
• § 452 — The department shall designate deer herd management units and designate the manager for the units.
• § 453 — The department shall develop plans for such deer herd management units.
• § 454 — Such management plans shall contain the following program elements: (a) Document existing information on deer herd management units and programs to obtain information that may be needed.
• § 455 — Deer herd management unit plans shall be reviewed annually and shall be the basis for department recommendations to the commission pursuant to this chapter.
• § 456 — The department shall biennially report to the Legislature and to the commission on the progress that is being made toward the restoration and maintenance of California’s deer herds.
• § 457 — (a) Not later than December 15 of each year, the department shall determine its proposed recommendations to the commission relating to the management of deer, including its recommendations as to wheth
• § 458 — (a) Not later than December 15 of each year, the department shall provide notice of the details of its proposed recommendations under Section 457 to the board of supervisors of each county affected by
• § 459 — (a) Not later than the February 1 next following the department’s notice, the board of supervisors of any affected county that has held a public hearing pursuant to Section 458 may, by resolution, obj
• § 46 — “Guide boat” means a boat or vessel under 25 feet in length, which is used by a guide, who is licensed under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2535) of Division 3, in inland waters for any of the fol
• § 460 — (a) Prior to each meeting of the commission at which the commission considers the regulation of deer and takes action pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 255, the department shall
• § 4600 — (a) It is unlawful to kill, wound, capture, or have in possession any undomesticated burro, except as provided in Section 53074.
• § 4650 — (a) For purposes of this code, “wild pig” means any of the following: (1) (A) A pig having two or more phenotypical characteristics specified in subparagraph (B) that does not have a brand, tattoo, or
• § 4651.5 — (a) The department shall work with landowners to mitigate depredation by sport hunting pursuant to this chapter, including the application of the Shared Habitat Alliance for Recreational Enhancement (
• § 4652 — (a) It is unlawful to take any wild pig, except as provided in Section 4181, without first procuring a validation authorizing the taking of that wild pig in accordance with this chapter.
• § 4652.5 — (a) It shall be unlawful to intentionally or knowingly release any hog, boar, pig, or swine to live in a wild or feral state upon public or private land.
• § 4653 — (a) The department may determine the design and type of information to be included on the wild pig validation and prescribe the procedures for the issuance and use of the validation.
• § 4654 — (a) To obtain a wild pig validation, a person must be 12 years of age or older, and possess a valid hunting license, or if a nonresident, a valid California nonresident hunting license.
• § 4655 — (a) Wild pig validations are valid only during that portion of the current hunting license year in which wild pigs may be taken or possessed in any area of the state.
• § 4657 — (a) The holder of a wild pig validation shall keep the validation in their possession while hunting wild pig.
• § 4700 — (a) (1) Except as provided in this section or Section 2081.
• § 4750 — It is unlawful to take any bear with firearm, trap, or bow and arrow without first procuring a tag authorizing the taking of that bear in accordance with this chapter, but no iron or steel-jawed or an
• § 4751 — (a) Any resident of this state, 12 years of age or older, who possesses a valid hunting license, may procure the number of bear tags corresponding to the number of bear that may legally be taken by on
• § 4752 — Bear tags are valid only during that portion of the current hunting license year in which bear may be taken or possessed in any district.
• § 4753 — The person to whom a bear tag has been issued shall carry the tag while hunting bear.
• § 4754 — (a) Any person who is convicted of a violation of any provision of this code, or of any rule, regulation, or order made or adopted under this code, relating to bears shall forfeit his or her bear tags
• § 4755 — Any person legally killing a bear in this state shall have the tag for that bear countersigned by a commissioner, a person employed in the department, a person designated for that purpose by the commi
• § 4757 — Any person taking a bear must retain possession of the skin of the bear and the portion of the bear’s head that includes both ears, during the open season for that bear and for 15 days thereafter, and
• § 4758 — (a) Subject to the provisions of this code permitting the sale of domestically raised game mammals, it is unlawful to sell or purchase, or possess for sale, the meat, skin, hide, teeth, claws, or othe
• § 4759 — The skin, hide, teeth, claws, or other parts of any bear lawfully taken and possessed for the period provided in Section 4757 may be tanned or utilized for personal use only.
• § 4760 — The provisions of this chapter relating to the possession of bear apply to bear taken outside this State and transported into this State.
• § 4763 — The provisions of this chapter do not apply to the taking of bear which is otherwise authorized to protect livestock, land, or property from damage or threatened damage from bear.
• § 48 — “Hook” or “fishhook” means an implement to catch or hold fish or amphibia.
• § 4800 — (a) The mountain lion (genus Puma) is a specially protected mammal under the laws of this state.
• § 4801 — The department may remove or take any mountain lion, or authorize an appropriate local agency with public safety responsibility to remove or take any mountain lion, that is perceived to be an imminent
• § 4801.5 — (a) Unless authorized in this chapter, nonlethal procedures shall be used when removing or taking any mountain lion that has not been designated as an imminent threat to public health or safety.
• § 4802 — Any person, or the employee or agent of a person, whose livestock or other property is being or has been injured, damaged, or destroyed by a mountain lion may report that fact to the department and re
• § 4803 — Upon receipt of a report pursuant to Section 4802, the department, or any animal damage control officer specifically authorized by the department to carry out this responsibility, shall immediately ta
• § 4804 — In order to ensure that only the depredating mountain lion will be taken, the department shall issue the permit pursuant to Section 4803 with the following conditions attached: (a) The permit shall ex
• § 4805 — Whenever immediate authorization will materially assist in the pursuit of the particular mountain lion believed to be responsible for the depredation reported pursuant to Section 4802, the department
• § 4806 — Any person issued a permit pursuant to Section 4803 or 4805 shall report, by telephone within 24 hours, the capturing, injuring, or killing of any mountain lion to an office of the department or, if t
• § 4807 — (a) Any mountain lion that is encountered while in the act of pursuing, inflicting injury to, or killing livestock, or domestic animals, may be taken immediately by the owner of the property or the ow
• § 4808 — As used in this chapter, “agent” means the agent or employee of the owner of the damaged or destroyed property, any county or city predator control officer, any employee of the Animal Damage Control S
• § 4809 — Mountain lions authorized to be taken pursuant to this chapter shall be taken by the most effective means available to take the mountain lion causing the damage or destruction, except that no mountain
• § 4810 — (a) As used in this section: (1) “Authorized research project” means a research project involving mountain lions subject to a Scientific Collecting Permit issued in accordance with this section.
• § 4900 — The Legislature declares that bighorn sheep are an important wildlife resource of the state to be managed and maintained at sound biological levels.
• § 4901 — The department shall determine the status and the trend of bighorn sheep populations by management units.
• § 4902 — (a) The commission may adopt all regulations necessary to provide for biologically sound management of Nelson bighorn sheep (subspecies Ovis canadensis nelsoni).