Chapter 1: Organization and Methods of Operation
Chapter 1: Organization and Methods of Operation
Purpose:
State departments are required by sections 536.023(3) and 252.002, RSMo to provide descriptions of their organizations. This rule describes the internal organization of the Department of Conservation, the methods of operation of the Conservation Commission and procedures for receiving information and requests from the public.
Chapter 2: Forest Crop Lands
Chapter 2: Forest Crop Lands
Purpose:
The Conservation Commission is authorized to make rules implementing the state forestry law. This rule establishes procedures for classifying and maintaining private land as forest crop land and requirements for managing, transfer and cancellation of classified lands.
Chapter 3: Monetary Values Established for Fish and Wildlife
Chapter 3: Monetary Values Established for Fish and Wildlife
Purpose:
This rule establishes the monetary values of fish as a standard for evaluating losses resulting from fish kills.
Chapter 4: General Provisions
Chapter 4: General Provisions
Purpose:
This rule defines the Wildlife Code, provides that its rules are severable and establishes enforcement authority.
Chapter 4: General Provisions
Purpose:
This rule prohibits the pursuit, taking, possession, or any use of wildlife except as provided in the Code
Chapter 4: General Provisions
Purpose:
This rule extends special protection to endangered wildlife and lists those species considered to be threatened with extinction.
Chapter 4: General Provisions
Purpose:
This rule establishes certain requirements for possession and trade in the medicinal plant ginseng. These requirements are necessary to secure federal approval for export of ginseng, in which trade is restricted under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. The principal market for ginseng is China and other Asian countries.
Chapter 4: General Provisions
Purpose:
This rule establishes a list of species that may not be possessed in Missouri.
Chapter 4: General Provisions
Purpose:
This rule establishes standards and procedures for authorizing public use of certain department-owned or leased buildings.
Chapter 4: General Provisions
Purpose:
This rule provides for reciprocal fishing and hunting privileges on boundary waters through agreements with adjoining states.
Chapter 4: General Provisions
Purpose:
This rule provides authority for enforcement officers to inspect permits, wildlife and devices or facilities used to take, possess or transport wildlife, to ascertain whether provisions of the Wildlife Code are being violated.
Chapter 4: General Provisions
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for capturing or killing wildlife that is damaging private property to prevent further damage.
Chapter 4: General Provisions
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for the transportation of wildlife into, within, and out of the state
Chapter 4: General Provisions
Purpose:
This rule establishes the provisions by which the taker may give wildlife to another person.
Chapter 4: General Provisions
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for identifying the taker and possessor of wildlife as a means of enforcing permits, limits and other regulations.
Chapter 4: General Provisions
Purpose:
This rule aids in enforcing daily limits and restricts the release of fish that have been rendered incapable of survival.
Chapter 4: General Provisions
Purpose:
This rule establishes conditions under which wildlife may be possessed and stored.
Chapter 4: General Provisions
Purpose:
This rule prohibits individuals from keeping wildlife taken illegally or while trespassing.
Chapter 4: General Provisions
Purpose:
This rule provides for preparing and serving wildlife as food and for exchanging certain raw fish for processed fish.
Chapter 4: General Provisions
Purpose:
This rule establishes conditions where wildlife may be imported from other states.
Chapter 4: General Provisions
Purpose:
This rule establishes Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Management Zones and places a restriction on activities that are likely to unnaturally concentrate white-tailed deer, thus increase the potential spread and prevalence of CWD. This rule also requires mandatory disease sampling during designated dates within CWD Management Zones.
Chapter 5: Permits
Purpose:
This rule establishes requirements for hunting, fishing, and trapping permits, and certain exceptions to those requirements.
Purpose:
This rule establishes procedures for identifying persons who have complied with requirements for wildlife permits.
Purpose:
This rule establishes methods of obtaining permits, restrictions on use, obligations, and validity.
Purpose:
This rule sets out the statutory authority of the commission to suspend, revoke or deny a permit or privilege, in addition to its constitutional authority, and provides a uniform procedure for administrative hearings when a hunter inflicts injury to another person mistaken for game.
Purpose:
This rule establishes eligibility requirements for the purpose of purchasing and using permits.
Purpose:
This rule establishes reduced-price deer and turkey permits for youth age fifteen (15) and younger.
Purpose:
This rule establishes procedures for the distribution and sale of permits and replacements and sets service fees.
Purpose:
This rule establishes tags for daily hunting or fishing on special management areas.
Purpose:
This rule provides for an Apprentice Hunter Authorization which will allow a person born on or after January 1, 1967 but at least sixteen (16) years of age to purchase firearms hunting permits so that they may hunt without hunter education certification in the presence of a properly licensed hunter education certified adult who is twenty-one (21) years of age or older.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a resident lifetime hunting and fishing permit.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a resident lifetime fishing permit
Purpose:
This rule establishes a resident lifetime hunting permit.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a combination fishing and small game hunting permit for residents of the state.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a new permit type available to resident National Guard and Reserve service members deployed to full-time active duty.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a fishing permit for residents of the state.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a small game hunting permit for residents of the state.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a resident firearms any-deer hunting permit.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a resident firearms antlerless deer hunting permit.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit for residents to hunt deer during a prescribed managed deer hunt.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit for hunting deer by archers who are residents of the state.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit for hunting turkeys during the firearms seasons by residents of the state.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a trapping permit for residents of the state.
Purpose:
This rule establishes an antlerless archery deer hunting permit for residents of the state.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit required for possession and transportation of trout by residents and nonresidents.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a new migratory bird harvest information program card to be required by migratory bird hunters in addition to the prescribed hunting permit and, where applicable, the federal duck stamp and the Missouri Waterfowl Hunting Stamp. Missouri will be one of the pilot states for implementation of this national harvest information program.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a Conservation Order permit for resident participants of the light goose Conservation Order.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a daily fishing permit.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a new daily small game hunting permit—comparable to the new daily fishing permit.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a hunting permit for use on licensed shooting areas by those not possessing a valid statewide hunting permit.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a short-term, low cost hunting permit for use on licensed shooting areas by those not possessing a statewide hunting permit or annual licensed shooting area permit.
Purpose:
This rule creates a White River Border Lakes Permit that will allow Arkansas and Missouri residents to fish the other state’s portion of Bull Shoals, Norfork and Table Rock lakes without purchasing a Nonresident Fishing Permit.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a fishing permit for nonresidents.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a small game hunting permit for nonresidents.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a nonresident firearms any-deer hunting permit.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a nonresident firearms first bonus deer hunting permit.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a nonresident antlerless archery deer hunting permit and the prerequisite of obtaining a Nonresident Archer’s Hunting Permit.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit for nonresidents to hunt deer during a prescribed managed deer hunt.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a deer, turkey, and small game hunting permit for nonresident archers.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit for hunting turkeys during the firearms seasons by nonresidents.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a Conservation Order permit for nonresident participants of the light goose Conservation Order.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a nonresident trapping permit, provides opportunity for nonresidents to trap in Missouri and for Missouri residents to trap in other states which have reciprocity requirements.
Purpose:
This rule creates a new Nonresident Landowner Firearms Any-Deer Hunting Permit for use on the landowner’s qualifying property at a reduced fee compared to a Nonresident Firearms Any-Deer Hunting Permit.
Purpose:
This rule creates a new Nonresident Landowner Firearms Turkey Hunting Permit for use on the landowner’s qualifying property at a reduced fee compared to a Nonresident Firearms Turkey Hunting Permit.
Purpose:
This rule creates a new Nonresident Landowner Archer’s Hunting Permit for use on the landowner’s qualifying property at a reduced fee compared to a Nonresident Archer’s Hunting Permit.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit for residents to take antlerless deer from property enrolled in the department’s deer management assistance program during the firearms deer hunting season.
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.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit for residents to take an antlered elk in open counties during the elk hunting season.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit for resident landowners to take an antlered elk on their property within the resident landowner permit zone during the elk hunting season.
Purpose:
This rule establishes a black bear hunting permit for residents.
Chapter 6: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Chapter 6: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes general provisions for sport fishing: permit requirements; daily and possession limits; reciprocal privileges on certain rivers; and stream versus impoundment fishing.
Chapter 6: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes the methods by which fishermen may take fish.
Chapter 6: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes zones, primarily below certain dams, where fishing and fishing methods are restricted.
Chapter 6: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes seasons, methods, and limits for taking black bass.
Chapter 6: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes seasons, methods and limits for taking catfish.
Chapter 6: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes seasons, methods and limits for taking crappie.
Chapter 6: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes seasons, methods and limits for taking muskellunge, northern pike, grass pickerel and chain pickerel.
Chapter 6: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes seasons, methods, and limits for taking paddlefish.
Chapter 6: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes seasons, methods and limits for taking rock bass and warmouth.
Chapter 6: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes seasons, methods and limits for taking shovelnose sturgeon.
Chapter 6: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes seasons, methods, and limits for taking trout.
Chapter 6: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes seasons, methods and limits for taking walleye and sauger.
Chapter 6: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes seasons, methods and limits for taking white, yellow, and striped bass.
Chapter 6: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes seasons, methods, and limits for taking all other fish.
Chapter 6: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes seasons, methods, and limits for taking species defined as live bait.
Chapter 6: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes seasons, methods and limits for taking mussels and clams.
Chapter 6: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes seasons, methods and limits for taking bullfrogs and green frogs.
Chapter 6: Sport Fishing: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes seasons, methods and limits for taking turtles.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule requires any person engaged in hunting or pursuing wildlife to possess the prescribed permit.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule prescribes the methods by which wildlife may be hunted.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule describes the process by which landowners as defined in 3 CSR 10-20.805 may submit an application to obtain landowner deer and turkey permits and to apply for the elk and bear permits that will be awarded to approved landowners.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes the open season and limits for quail hunting.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes the open season and limits for rabbit hunting.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes the open season and limits for squirrel hunting.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes the open season and limits for groundhog hunting.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes the open season and limits for pheasant and gray partridge hunting.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes general provisions for hunting deer.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes the archery deer hunting season, limits and provisions for hunting.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes the firearms deer hunting seasons, limits, and provisions for hunting.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes season limits and provisions for landowners.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes special deer harvest limits and restrictions for certain counties.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes general provisions for managed deer hunts.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes deer harvest limits by county.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule incorporates deer hunting on department areas into Chapter 7.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes requirements for obtaining and using no-cost CWD management permits.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
The Department of Conservation is authorized to select waterfowl hunting season dates and bag limits within frameworks established by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The seasons and limits selected are intended to provide optimum hunting opportunity consistent with the welfare of the species.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes the open seasons, methods and limits for crow hunting.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes the season, methods, and limits for hunting frogs.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes the seasons and methods for hunting furbearers.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes the seasons, methods, and limits for hunting wild turkeys.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes general provisions for enrollment in the department’s deer management assistance program and for hunting in the program.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes general provisions for hunting elk.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes seasons, limits, and provisions for hunting elk.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for resident landowners to hunt elk on their property within the resident landowner permit zone during the elk hunting season.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule incorporates elk hunting on department areas in Chapter 7.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes the general provisions for hunting black bear.
Chapter 7: Hunting: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes the application and draw process for black bear hunting in Missouri.
Chapter 8: Trapping: Seasons, Methods
Chapter 8: Trapping: Seasons, Methods
Purpose:
This rule requires any person engaged in trapping to possess the prescribed permit.
Chapter 8: Trapping: Seasons, Methods
Purpose:
This rule specifies the types of traps that are permitted and the restrictions on their use.
Chapter 8: Trapping: Seasons, Methods
Purpose:
This rule establishes the open seasons for trapping and for selling pelts and carcasses of furbearers.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule establishes general provisions for the chapter, to be consistent with the format of other chapters.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule moves the language in 3 CSR 10-9.630 to the beginning of Chapter 9 for easier reference and better organization.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule prohibits the pursuit, taking, possession or any use of wildlife except as provided in the Code.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule establishes standards to be followed by those holding wildlife in captivity to assure the animals are confined in humane and sanitary conditions and in ways that prevent escape.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule establishes a new category for certain wildlife—wildlife inherently dangerous to humans and the provisions for private ownership of these species.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule identifies those species that can only be held under provisions of a Class II wildlife breeder permit.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit for wildlife breeders.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule establishes a new permit for holders of wildlife classified as inherently dangerous to humans.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule establishes privileges and requirements for wildlife breeders. It has been reorganized from an older version to provide better organization and understanding; and to clarify that migratory waterfowl may be reared and held in captivity as provided in federal regulations but that such waterfowl may only be hunted as provided in 3 CSR 10-9.625 of this Code.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule requires each wildlife breeder to submit a report of his/her activities.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule is being established to provide specific authority for qualified individuals or entities to hold wildlife for rehabilitation.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit to possess certain forms of wildlife for personal use but not for sale.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit under which wildlife may be taken for scientific purposes.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule authorizes bird banding by persons holding a federal permit.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit for residents of the state to engage in falconry.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for hunting with birds of prey.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit for licensed shooting areas.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule sets out the privileges and requirements for licensed shooting areas.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule requires that licensed hunting preserves maintain records on the premises that would include information on species, purchase, sale, propagation, health certification, applicable permits and harvest, on a form furnished by the Department of Conservation.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit for operation of a running area for training or racing hounds.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule sets out the privileges and requirements for hound running areas.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit to conduct field trials and sets requirements for conducting these trials.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit to operate a bird dog training area.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule clarifies the privileges and responsibilities under this permit by creation of a new rule, and clarifies that more than one (1) dog training area permit may be issued for the same tract of land.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule establishes a Licensed Trout Fishing Area Permit.
Chapter 9: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards
Purpose:
This rule delineates the privileges and requirements associated with the Licensed Trout Fishing Area Permit.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule requires persons commercializing in wildlife to possess the prescribed permit and to keep records of their transactions available for inspection.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit for buying and selling furs throughout the year.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes a new permit for nonresident fur dealers. Privileges were previously provided under a Fur Dealer’s Permit, which is being modified to identify resident and nonresident status.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes reporting and other requirements to be met by fur dealers and fur buyers.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes a commercial fishing permit for residents of the state and sets fees for commercial fishing gear.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes a special permit required in addition to the Commercial Fishing Permit for residents of the state to harvest shovelnose sturgeon from the Missouri River.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes a special permit required in addition to the Commercial Fishing Permit for nonresidents of the state to harvest shovelnose sturgeon from the Mississippi River.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule provides for commercial fishing in certain streams and establishes restrictions on the use of commercial fishing gear.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes license reciprocity for commercial fishermen in certain boundary streams.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule requires monthly catch reports by commercial fishermen.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit needed to buy and subsequently sell shovelnose sturgeon, paddlefish, bowfin, or any parts of these species legally taken by commercial methods.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes a tag and release fishing promotion permit for individuals tagging fish for promotions, contests or other events on selected impoundments.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes a registration requirement for sellers of live bait and consolidates other regulations regarding bait sales.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes a utilization permit for the possession and transportation of fish and authorizes the donation or selling of those fish to commercial establishments.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule authorizes retail establishments to buy and sell certain forms of wildlife and wildlife products.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit for commercial processors of deer meat and sets requirements for those establishments.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes a taxidermy and tanning permit with specified privileges and requirements.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule authorizes the sale of certain wildlife parts and mounted specimens.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes procedures for obtaining commercial permits and replacement permits.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes a permit for residents of the state to take, possess, transport, and hold coyotes, red fox, and gray fox alive and to sell these animals to the holder of a valid Hound Running Area Operator and Dealer Permit.
Chapter 10: Commercial Permits: Seasons, Methods, Limits
Purpose:
This rule establishes the seasons, methods, and requirements for taking, holding, possessing, and selling live coyotes, red fox, and gray fox by the holder of a Resident Commercial Live Coyote and Fox Trapping permit.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule defines which department areas these regulations apply to and how exceptions to the regulations are made.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes restricted activities on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes requirements and conditions for commercial use of department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes hours department areas are closed to public use and designates conditions under which some areas are closed to certain activities.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for allowing pets and hunting dogs on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for allowing field trials on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule restricts the use of certain transportation methods on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule limits harvesting wild plants, plant products, and mushrooms on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for camping on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for use of tree stands on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for target shooting and use of shooting ranges on department areas
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for the use of decoys and blinds on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for use of boats and motors on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for harvesting bullfrogs and green frogs on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes general provisions for hunting on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for turkey hunting on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for deer hunting on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for quail hunting on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule incorporates deleted portions of 3 CSR 10-11.180 into a single dove-specific rule to clarify and simplify the Wildlife Code. It also clarifies that dove hunters must possess and submit a valid area daily hunting tag on specified areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for waterfowl hunting on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for trapping on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for elk hunting on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for black bear hunting on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for fishing on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for fishing methods and hours of restricted public use on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for daily and possession limits on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for length limits on department areas.
Chapter 11: Special Regulations for Department Areas
Purpose:
This rule establishes regulations for the take of feral swine on department areas during deer and turkey hunting seasons.
Chapter 12: Special Regulations for Areas Owned by Other Entities
Chapter 12: Special Regulations for Areas Owned by Other Entities
Purpose:
This rule establishes cooperative special provisions for public use activities on areas owned by other entities.
Chapter 12: Special Regulations for Areas Owned by Other Entities
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for the designation of private property and property owned by government agencies other than the department as wildlife refuges.
Chapter 12: Special Regulations for Areas Owned by Other Entities
Purpose:
This rule establishes closed hours for uses other than fishing and other conservation-related recreation at several areas managed in cooperation with other public entities.
Chapter 12: Special Regulations for Areas Owned by Other Entities
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for use of boats and motors on areas under management agreement with the department
Chapter 12: Special Regulations for Areas Owned by Other Entities
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for harvesting bullfrogs and green frogs on areas under management agreement with the department.
Chapter 12: Special Regulations for Areas Owned by Other Entities
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for hunting and trapping on areas under management agreement with the department.
Chapter 12: Special Regulations for Areas Owned by Other Entities
Purpose:
This rule establishes where and when fishing is allowed on areas under management agreement with the department.
Chapter 12: Special Regulations for Areas Owned by Other Entities
Purpose:
This rule establishes provisions for fishing methods on areas under management agreement with the department.
Chapter 12: Special Regulations for Areas Owned by Other Entities
Purpose:
This rule establishes daily and possession limits for fish on areas under management agreement with the department.
Chapter 12: Special Regulations for Areas Owned by Other Entities
Purpose:
This rule establishes length limits on fish for areas under management agreement with the department.
Chapter 12: Special Regulations for Areas Owned by Other Entities
Purpose:
This rule establishes methods, seasons, and limits for fishing within Trout Park streams under management agreement with the department.
Chapter 12: Special Regulations for Areas Owned by Other Entities
Purpose:
This rule establishes methods, seasons, and limits for fishing within Stone Mill Spring Branch, located on U.S. Forest Service land in Pulaski County.
Chapter 12: Special Regulations for Areas Owned by Other Entities
Purpose:
This rule specifies public access options for landowners enrolled in a department-sponsored outdoor recreational access program and prohibits uses other than those specifically authorized by the landowner.
Chapter 20: Definitions
Purpose:
This rule defines words and terms used in the Code.
