3 CSR 10- 5.605: Nonresident Firearms Deer Management Assistance Program Permit

Purpose

This rule establishes a permit for nonresidents to take antlerless deer from property enrolled in the department’s deer management assistance program during the firearms deer hunting season.

Summary:

This amendment would allow Nonresident Deer Management Assistance Program Permits to also be used during the archery deer and turkey hunting season and updates the list of archery hunting permits that would serve as prerequisites for nonresidents to be able to purchase Nonresident Deer Management Assistance Program Permits.

Title 3 – Department of Conservation
Division 10 – Conservation Commission

Chapter 5—Wildlife Code: Permits

Proposed Amendment

PURPOSE: This rule establishes a permit for nonresidents to take antlerless deer from property enrolled in the department’s deer management assistance program during the archery deer hunting season and the firearms deer hunting season.

To pursue, take, possess, and transport one (1) antlerless deer from property enrolled in the department’s deer management assistance program. A Nonresident Firearms Any-Deer Hunting Permit, Nonresident Landowner Firearms Any-Deer Hunting Permit, [or a Nonresident Managed Deer Hunting Permit ]Nonresident Archer’s Hunting Permit, or a Nonresident Landowner Archer’s Hunting Permit is required as a prerequisite to this permit.  Fee: twenty-six dollars ($26).

AUTHORITY: sections 40 and 45 of Art. IV, Mo. Const. and section 252.040 RSMo 2016.* Original rule filed Aug. 28, 2018, effective March 1, 2019. For intervening history, please consult the Code of State Regulations. Amended: Filed December 8, 2023.

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: January 16, 2024 to February 14, 2024