Browse as ListSearch Within- Section 49-7-1 - Definitions and interpretations
- Section 49-7-1.1 - Declaration of public policy
- Section 49-7-2 - "Social Security Administration" construed to include Railroad Retirement Board
- Section 49-7-3 - Issuance of resident hunting or fishing licenses; possession of license
- Section 49-7-4 - Exemption of records relating to hunting, fishing and trapping license applications and holders of such licenses from Mississippi Public Records Act
- Section 49-7-5 - Fees for resident hunting, fishing, and combination hunting and fishing licenses; exemptions
- Section 49-7-6 and 49-7-7 - [Repealed]
- Section 49-7-7 - Use of revenue from increase in license fees
- Section 49-7-8 - Hunting, fishing or trapping license for nonresident; fees; violations
- Section 49-7-9 - Resident fishing licenses
- Section 49-7-9.1 - Commercial fishing licenses; who is required to purchase; labeling of commercial fishing equipment; slat basket license; fees
- Section 49-7-10 - [Repealed]
- Section 49-7-11 - [Repealed]
- Section 49-7-12 - Reciprocal agreements with other states; nonresident freshwater commercial fishing licenses; fees; penalties
- Section 49-7-12.1 - Nonresident wholesale dealers who buy certain fish and nonresidents who import certain fish are required to obtain commercial fishing licenses
- Section 49-7-13 - Definitions; fee for resident trapper's license; permission of landowners to trap; certain types of traps prohibited; identification of traps; placing or setting traps near public roads or streets; exemptions; selling of skins and meat of certain animals during and after trapping season
- Section 49-7-15 - [Repealed]
- Section 49-7-16 - Fur dealer or regular buyer of fur bearing animals; license; fees; possession of furs; tagging
- Section 49-7-17 - License agents; bonding requirements; additional license fee for officer or person issuing license; additional fee to recoup costs of issuing licenses
- Section 49-7-19 - Prohibition against issuing license to person physically or mentally unfit to carry or use firearm
- Section 49-7-20 - Requirement of satisfactory completion of hunter education course; resident apprentice hunting license; resident combination small game hunting and fishing license
- Section 49-7-20.1 - Child hunter safety; hunter education course; supervision by adult who holds valid Mississippi license for species being hunted
- Section 49-7-20.2 - Course on hunter safety may be added to school curriculum or after-school program for students in grades 7 through 12; minimum requirements of course
- Section 49-7-21 - License certificates; hunting, trapping or fishing without license prohibited; penalties
- Section 49-7-22 - Multiyear licenses; fees; additional license fee for person issuing license
- Section 49-7-23 - Sale of hunting and fishing licenses by constables designated as deputy conservation officers
- Section 49-7-25 - Records and reports
- Section 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
- Section 49-7-27 - Revocation and suspension of licenses and privileges; penalties for hunting, trapping or fishing without license or privilege
- Section 49-7-29 - Wholesale minnow dealers
- Section 49-7-30 - Season for nongame gross fish
- Section 49-7-31 - Open season on deer
- Section 49-7-31.1 - Open season on deer; requirements for wearing hunter orange during any firearm season; exceptions; penalties
- Section 49-7-31.2 - Open season for game birds
- Section 49-7-31.3 - Open season for game animals other than deer
- Section 49-7-31.4 - Open season on fur-bearing animals; hunting raccoons and bobcats with dogs; additional open season on raccoons
- Section 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; penalties
- Section 49-7-31.6 - Velvet hunting season; special hunts during velvet hunting season outside of open season on deer
- Section 49-7-32 - Restrictions on hunting with dogs during turkey season
- Section 49-7-33 - Use of scents, lures, sound devices or supplemental feed for hunting and trapping
- Section 49-7-33.1 - Taking deer with the use of supplemental feed
- Section 49-7-34 - Hunting enclosures; permits; regulations; penalties for violation
- Section 49-7-35 - Game season beginning on Sunday
- Section 49-7-37 - Hunting of game with falcons or hawks, bow and arrow, primitive firearms, air guns, air bows or pre-charged pneumatic weapons; special open seasons on deer and small game; special season for collecting CWD testing samples; license fees; penalties
- Section 49-7-38 - Certain persons authorized to hunt with bow and arrow or crossbow during any open season on deer, turkey or small game
- Section 49-7-38.1 - Special hunting permit for youth under age 18 who have life threatening illnesses
- Section 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
- Section 49-7-40 - Special hunt by handicapped persons in natural area at Arkabutla Lake
- Section 49-7-41 - Bag limits
- Section 49-7-42 - Training bird dogs through use of release pens and tamed and identified quail
- Section 49-7-43 - Regulation of certain Mississippi lands purchased by federal government
- Section 49-7-45 - Certain acts declared unlawful; dismissal upon proper proof of actions for failure to register or possess boat's registration card
- Section 49-7-47 - Restrictions on hunting or catching alligators
- Section 49-7-49 - Prima facie evidence of hunting, trapping, or fishing
- Section 49-7-51 - Sale of game birds, animals or fish
- Section 49-7-53 - Shipment and other transportation of game birds, animals or fish
- Section 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
- Section 49-7-55 - Unlawful to possess, etc
- Section 49-7-56 - Restaurants permitted to prepare and serve recreationally caught finfish to persons who caught the fish
- Section 49-7-57 - Possession of lawfully taken game animal, bird or fish; unlawful possession prohibited
- Section 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
- Section 49-7-58.1 - Regulation of enclosures preventing free egress of white-tailed deer
- Section 49-7-58.2 - Program of inspecting, monitoring, testing and preventing chronic wasting disease
- Section 49-7-58.3 - Regulation of hunting of nonnative cervids in noncommercial wildlife enclosures
- Section 49-7-58.4 - Regulation of commercial and noncommercial wild animal enclosures and facilities preventing free ingress and egress of native and nonnative cervids
- Section 49-7-58.5 - [Repealed]
- Section 49-7-58.6 - Testing of certain white-tailed deer for chronic wasting disease (CWD) required; submission of testing samples; declaration of a CWD Management Zone; penalties for violations
- Section 49-7-59 - Hours for hunting
- Section 49-7-61 - Hunting on Sabbath
- Section 49-7-63 - Use of traps, nets, etc., prohibited
- Section 49-7-65 - Unlawful to hunt, when
- Section 49-7-67 - Unlawful to sell, when
- Section 49-7-68 - Unlawful to engage in computer-assisted remote hunting; penalties
- Section 49-7-69 - Use of explosives and chemicals prohibited
- Section 49-7-71 - Unlawful to disturb traps
- Section 49-7-73 - Unlawful to disturb nests or eggs
- Section 49-7-75 - Unlawful to fire woods, when
- Section 49-7-77 - Game protected during high water or fire
- Section 49-7-78 - Canned hunts prohibited
- Section 49-7-79 - Unlawful to hunt on lands of others, when
- Section 49-7-80 - Releasing aquatic species or animals not indigenous to Mississippi without permit
- Section 49-7-81 - Unlawful methods of taking fish; exceptions; penalties
- Section 49-7-83 - Unlawful not to return to water game fish taken by net
- Section 49-7-85 - [Repealed]
- Section 49-7-87 - Fish, sale of, unlawful, when
- Section 49-7-89 - Fish dealers not to possess
- Section 49-7-90 - Possession of paddlefish in violation of law or regulation; penalties; permits and fees
- Section 49-7-91 - Unlawful to fish commercially in Muddy Bayou
- Section 49-7-93 - Killing deer or spotted fawn out of season; penalties
- Section 49-7-95 - Killing deer by headlighting or other lighting devices, forward-looking infrared (FLIR) or thermal imaging device; killing livestock; exception; harassment of wildlife; penalties
- Section 49-7-96 - Deer management zones; antler restrictions
- Section 49-7-97 - Liability of public officer for failure to perform duty
- Section 49-7-99 - [Repealed]
- Section 49-7-101 - General fines and penalties
- Section 49-7-102 - [Repealed]
- Section 49-7-103 - Seizure and confiscation of property used in illegal hunting or fishing, etc., as contraband
- Section 49-7-105 through 49-7-131 - [Repealed]
- Section 49-7-133 - Reciprocity agreement recognizing hunting and fishing licenses issued by participating states
- Section 49-7-135 - Compact concerning Pearl River authorized
- Section 49-7-137 - Lease of certain state lands for hunting, fishing and conservation purposes
- Section 49-7-139 - Seafoods excluded
- Section 49-7-140 - Importation, release and transportation of wild hogs prohibited; penalty
- Section 49-7-141 - Penalties; Class I violations
- Section 49-7-143 - Penalties; Class II violations
- Section 49-7-145 - [Repealed]
- Section 49-7-147 - Interference with lawful taking of wildlife
- Section 49-7-148 - Access for hunters with disabilities; use of mobility related device
- Section 49-7-149 and 49-7-150 - [Repealed]