This amendment reflects updates to the avian taxonomic classification hierarchy recognized by the American Ornithological Society that moves kites, hawks, eagles, and allies out of the order Falconiformes to the order Accipitriformes and corrects an inaccurate reference in the authority section.
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Title 3 – Department of Conservation
Division 10 – Conservation Commission
Proposed Amendment
Proposed Amendment
(4) An applicant for a permit shall submit an application with information including the number of raptors possessed and the species, age, sex, date of acquisition, and source of each. An applicant under eighteen (18) years of age must have a parent or legal guardian co-sign the application. Falconry permits are issued by classes as follows:
(A) Apprentice Class—A permittee shall be at least twelve (12) years old and shall have a sponsor holding a general or master falconry permit. A sponsor shall have no more than three (3) apprentices at any one (1) time. An apprentice may possess only one (1) wild caught, captive-bred, or hybrid raptor of the order Accipitriformes, Strigiformes, or Falconiformes except the following: Osprey, [American]swallow-tailed kite, Mississippi kite, bald eagle, white-tailed eagle, Steller’s sea-eagle, northern harrier, Swainson’s hawk, ferruginous hawk, sharp-shinned hawk, golden eagle, peregrine falcon, prairie falcon, flammulated owl, burrowing owl, barn owl, long-eared owl, and short-eared owl and may obtain not more than two (2) raptors from the wild during the twelve (12)-month reporting period. An apprentice permittee may not possess a bird taken from the wild as a nestling or that is imprinted on humans;
AUTHORITY: sections 40 and 45 of Art. IV, Mo. Const. and section [252.240]252.040, RSMo 2000.* This rule previously filed as 3 CSR 10-7.442. Original rule filed July 22, 1974, effective Dec. 31, 1974. For intervening history, please consult the Code of State Regulations. Amended: Filed Feb. 9, 2018.
PUBLIC ENTITY COST: This proposed amendment will not cost state agencies or political subdivision 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. 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.