3 CSR 10- 5.320: Resident Lifetime Small Game Hunting Permit

Purpose

This rule establishes a resident lifetime hunting permit.

Summary:

This amendment moves the fee for a Resident Lifetime Small Game Hunting Permit to 3 CSR 10-5.950.

Title 3 – Department of Conservation
Division 10 – Conservation Commission

Chapter 5—Wildlife Code: Permits

Proposed Amendment

(1) Resident Lifetime Small Game Hunting Permit. To chase, pursue, take, possess, and transport birds (blue, snow, and Ross’s geese during the Conservation Order and migratory birds; except turkeys), mammals (except black bears, deer and elk), and frogs, and to sell furbearers taken by hunting. [Fee: 

(A) For persons age fifteen (15) and under: two hundred ninety-five dollars ($295); 

(B) For persons age sixteen (16) through twenty-nine (29): four hundred thirty dollars ($430); 

(C) For persons age thirty (30) through thirty-nine (39): three hundred seventy-six dollars ($376); 

(D) For persons age forty (40) through fifty-nine (59): three hundred twenty-two dollars ($322); and  

(E) For persons age sixty (60) and older: thirty-eight dollars ($38).] 

AUTHORITY: sections 40 and 45 of Art. IV, Mo. Const. Original rule filed June 20, 1995, effective Jan. 1, 1996. For intervening history, please consult the Code of State Regulations. Amended: Filed May 16, 2025. 

PUBLIC ENTITY COST: This proposed amendment will not cost state agencies or political subdivisions more than five hundred dollars ($500) in the aggregate. 

PRIVATE ENTITY COST: This proposed amendment will not cost private entities more than five hundred dollars ($500) in the aggregate. 

NOTICE TO SUBMIT COMMENTS: Anyone may file a statement in support of or in opposition to this proposed amendment with Regulations Committee Chairman, Department of Conservation, P.O. Box 180, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0180, or via the department’s website at https://short.mdc.mo.gov/Z49. To be considered, comments must be received within thirty (30) days after publication of this notice in the Missouri Register. No public hearing is scheduled. 

Official public comment period: July 2, 2025 to July 31, 2025