2011 Connecticut Code
Title 26 Fisheries and Game
Chapter 490 Fisheries and Game
Sec. 26-27b. Hunting or taking of waterfowl, stamp required. Connecticut Migratory Bird Conservation Stamp.

      Sec. 26-27b. Hunting or taking of waterfowl, stamp required. Connecticut Migratory Bird Conservation Stamp. (a) On or after July 1, 1993, no person sixteen years of age or older may hunt waterfowl or take waterfowl in the state without first procuring a Connecticut Migratory Bird Conservation Stamp and having such stamp in his possession. The stamp shall not be transferable and shall be issued annually.

      (b) The Commissioner of Environmental Protection shall provide for the design, production and procurement of the mandatory Connecticut Migratory Bird Conservation Stamp and shall, by regulations adopted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, provide for the issuance of the stamp. Stamps shall be sold at a price determined by the commissioner, provided the price of a mandatory stamp shall not exceed thirteen dollars. The commissioner shall establish an additional voluntary migratory bird conservation donation of not less than two dollars that shall be deposited in the migratory bird conservation account established under section 26-27c. Any agent issuing such stamps may retain a fee established by the Commissioner of Environmental Protection pursuant to section 26-3c for each stamp sold and shall remit the balance to the Department of Environmental Protection.

      (P.A. 91-308, S. 2; P.A. 92-133, S. 1, 9; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 440; P.A. 10-3, S. 34.)

      History: P.A. 92-133 amended Subsec. (a) to change the date on which a Connecticut Migratory Bird Stamp would be required for certain hunting activities from July 1, 1992, to July 1, 1993, and amended Subsec. (b) to delete a requirement that funds received under this section be deposited into the general fund and credited to the conservation fund established under Sec. 22a-27h; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 amended Subsec. (b) to increase price of mandatory stamp from $10 to $15; P.A. 10-3 amended Subsec. (a) by eliminating requirement that signature be written in ink across face of stamp and eliminating July 1 as beginning date for issuance of stamps and amended Subsec. (b) by reducing fee for stamp from $15 to $13, adding authority for commissioner to establish additional voluntary migratory bird conservation donation of not less than $2 and making conforming changes, effective April 14, 2010 (Revisor's note: In codifying P.A. 10-3, S. 34, a reference to "section 72 of this act" was deemed by the Revisors to be a reference to "section 71 of this act" and therefore cited as "section 26-3c" in Subsec. (b)).