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2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 49 - CONSERVATION AND ECOLOGY
Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing.
- 49-7-1 - Definitions and interpretations.
- 49-7-1 - 1. Declaration of public policy.
- 49-7-2 - "Social Security Administration" construed to include Railroad Retirement Board.
- 49-7-3 - Issuance of resident hunting or fishing licenses; possession of license.
- 49-7-5 - Fees for resident hunting, fishing, and combination hunting and fishing licenses; exemptions.
- 49-7-6 - and 49-7-7. Repealed.
- 49-7-8 - Hunting, fishing or trapping license for nonresident; fees; violations.
- 49-7-9 - Resident fishing licenses.
- 49-7-10 - Repealed.
- 49-7-11 - Repealed.
- 49-7-12 - Reciprocal agreements with other states; nonresident freshwater commercial fishing licenses; fees; penalties.
- 49-7-13 - Fee for resident trapper's license; permission of landowners to trap; identification of traps; placing or setting traps near public roads or streets; selling of skins and meat of certain animals during and after trapping season.
- 49-7-15 - Repealed.
- 49-7-16 - Fur dealer or regular buyer of fur bearing animals; license; fees; possession of furs; tagging.
- 49-7-17 - License agents; bonding requirements; additional license fee for officer or person issuing license.
- 49-7-19 - Prohibition against issuing license to person physically or mentally unfit to carry or use firearm.
- 49-7-20 - Requirement of satisfactory completion of hunter education course; resident apprentice hunting license.
- 49-7-20 - 1. Child hunter safety; hunter education course; supervision by adult who holds valid Mississippi license for species being hunted.
- 49-7-21 - License certificates; hunting, trapping or fishing without license prohibited; penalties.
- 49-7-22 - Multiyear licenses; fees; additional license fee for person issuing license.
- 49-7-23 - Sale of hunting and fishing licenses by constables designated as deputy conservation officers.
- 49-7-25 - Records and reports.
- 49-7-26 - Development of tagging and reporting program for deer and turkey to collect harvest data and monitor bag limit compliance; penalties for violation of turkey or deer tagging program.
- 49-7-27 - Revocation and suspension of licenses and privileges; penalties for hunting, trapping or fishing without license or privilege.
- 49-7-29 - Wholesale minnow dealers.
- 49-7-30 - Season for nongame gross fish.
- 49-7-31 - Open season on deer.
- 49-7-31 - 1. Open season on deer; requirements for wearing hunter orange during any gun season; penalties.
- 49-7-31 - 2. Open season for game birds.
- 49-7-31 - 3. Open season for game animals other than deer.
- 49-7-31 - 4. Open season on fur-bearing animals; hunting raccoons and bobcats with dogs; additional open season on raccoons.
- 49-7-31 - 5. Hunting, trapping and taking of nuisance animals; unlawful to trap certain animals outside of open season for fur-bearing animals; hunting nuisance animals with dogs, electronic calls, bait and lures authorized; exceptions; hunting wild hogs.
- 49-7-32 - Restrictions on hunting with dogs during turkey season.
- 49-7-33 - Use of scents, lures or sound devices.
- 49-7-33 - 1. Taking deer with the aid of bait [Repealed effective July 1, 2010].
- 49-7-34 - Hunting enclosures; permits; regulations; penalties for violation.
- 49-7-35 - Game season beginning on Sunday.
- 49-7-37 - Hunting of game with falcons or hawks, bow and arrow or primitive firearms; special open seasons on deer and small game; license fees; penalties.
- 49-7-38 - Crossbow hunting licenses for elderly and disabled persons.
- 49-7-39 - Special hunt for youth and persons with disabilities in Natchez State Park; primitive weapon season in Natchez State Park; commission may establish such hunts in other state parks; commission may authorize special youth hunts for nonmigratory birds; special hunting season for youth to run concurrently with primitive weapon season on deer.
- 49-7-40 - Special hunt by handicapped persons in natural area at Arkabutla Lake.
- 49-7-41 - Bag limits.
- 49-7-42 - Training bird dogs through use of release pens and tamed and identified quail.
- 49-7-43 - Regulation of certain Mississippi lands purchased by federal government.
- 49-7-45 - Certain acts declared unlawful; dismissal upon proper proof of actions for failure to register or possess boat's registration card.
- 49-7-47 - Restrictions on hunting or catching alligators.
- 49-7-49 - Prima facie evidence of hunting, trapping, or fishing.
- 49-7-51 - Sale of game birds, animals or fish.
- 49-7-53 - Shipment and other transportation of game birds, animals or fish.
- 49-7-54 - Importation and translocation of white-tailed deer into state prohibited; exception for university research facilities; commission to establish regulations governing importation with emphasis on disease prevention; penalties.
- 49-7-55 - Unlawful to possess, etc.
- 49-7-57 - Possession of lawfully taken game animal, bird or fish; unlawful possession prohibited.
- 49-7-58 - Temporary moratorium on importation of elk, red deer, mule deer, black-tailed deer and other cervids designated as susceptible to chronic wasting disease; penalties; authority of commission.
- 49-7-58 - 1. Regulation of enclosures preventing free egress of white-tailed deer.
- 49-7-58 - 2. Program of inspecting, monitoring, testing and preventing chronic wasting disease.
- 49-7-58 - 3. Regulation of hunting of nonnative cervids in noncommercial wildlife enclosures [Repealed effective July 1, 2012].
- 49-7-58 - 4. Regulation of commercial and noncommercial wild animal enclosures and facilities preventing free ingress and egress of native and nonnative cervids [Repealed effective July 1, 2012].
- 49-7-59 - Hours for hunting.
- 49-7-61 - Hunting on Sabbath.
- 49-7-63 - Use of traps, nets, etc., prohibited.
- 49-7-65 - Unlawful to hunt, when.
- 49-7-67 - Unlawful to sell, when.
- 49-7-68 - Unlawful to engage in computer-assisted remote hunting; penalties.
- 49-7-69 - Use of explosives and chemicals prohibited.
- 49-7-71 - Unlawful to disturb traps.
- 49-7-73 - Unlawful to disturb nests or eggs.
- 49-7-75 - Unlawful to fire woods, when.
- 49-7-77 - Game protected during high water or fire.
- 49-7-78 - Canned hunts prohibited.
- 49-7-79 - Unlawful to hunt on lands of others, when.
- 49-7-80 - Releasing aquatic species or animals not indigenous to Mississippi without permit.
- 49-7-81 - Unlawful methods of taking fish; exceptions; penalties.
- 49-7-83 - Unlawful not to return to water game fish taken by net.
- 49-7-85 - Repealed.
- 49-7-87 - Fish, sale of, unlawful, when.
- 49-7-89 - Fish dealers not to possess.
- 49-7-90 - Possession of paddlefish in violation of law or regulation; penalties; permits and fees [Repealed effective July 1, 2010].
- 49-7-91 - Unlawful to fish commercially in Muddy Bayou.
- 49-7-93 - Killing deer or spotted fawn out of season; penalties.
- 49-7-95 - Killing deer by headlighting or other lighting devices; killing livestock; harassment of wildlife; penalties.
- 49-7-96 - Deer management zones; antler restrictions [Repealed effective July 1, 2010].
- 49-7-97 - Liability of public officer for failure to perform duty.
- 49-7-99 - Repealed.
- 49-7-101 - General fines and penalties.
- 49-7-102 - Repealed.
- 49-7-103 - Seizure and confiscation of property used in illegal hunting or fishing, etc., as contraband.
- 49-7-105 - through 49-7-131. Repealed.
- 49-7-133 - Compact concerning Mississippi River authorized.
- 49-7-135 - Compact concerning Pearl River authorized.
- 49-7-137 - Lease of certain state lands for hunting, fishing and conservation purposes.
- 49-7-139 - Seafoods excluded.
- 49-7-140 - Importation and release of wild hogs; prohibition; penalties.
- 49-7-141 - Penalties; Class I violations.
- 49-7-143 - Penalties; Class II violations.
- 49-7-145 - Repealed.
- 49-7-147 - Interference with lawful taking of wildlife.
- 49-7-148 - Access for handicapped hunters.
- 49-7-149 - and 49-7-150. Repealed.
- 49-7-151 - Creation of lifetime sportsman license and Mississippi Wildlife Endowment Fund.
- 49-7-153 - Lifetime sportsman and lifetime fishing licenses.
- 49-7-155 - Wildlife Endowment Fund.
- 49-7-161 - Definitions.
- 49-7-163 - Unlawful to hunt or take migratory waterfowl without stamp or electronic equivalent; validation of stamp or proof of purchase of electronic equivalent; issuance or sale of stamp or electronic equivalent.
- 49-7-165 - Fee for stamp.
- 49-7-167 - Disposition of revenues.
- 49-7-169 - Commission may enter into reciprocal agreements with other states.
- 49-7-171 - Ascertainment of acceptability of projects undertaken outside of state.
- 49-7-173 - Penalties.
- 49-7-201 - Beaver control program established; funding; county contributions; "participating landowner" defined.
- 49-7-203 - Beaver Control Advisory Board created; composition of board; compensation of members; duties, responsibilities and authority of board.
- 49-7-251 - Petition for forfeiture; service of process; procedure to determine ownership of particular types of property; hearing prerequisite.
- 49-7-253 - Time to file answer; failure to file; time for hearing; burden of proof; evidence at hearing; decision.
- 49-7-255 - Liquidation of forfeited property; disposition of proceeds; retention and use of certain property; issuance of certificate of title.
- 49-7-257 - Administrative forfeiture procedures for certain property.
- 49-7-301 - Implied consent to chemical test of certain bodily substances for presence of alcohol or other drugs; validity of chemical analysis; who may take bodily substance specimens.
- 49-7-303 - Revocation or suspension of hunting license where use of weapon by person with specified alcohol concentration causes serious injury or death to another person; admissibility of chemical test results in civil or criminal actions; hunter education course required for restoration of hunting privileges.
- 49-7-305 - Hunting incident reports.
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