The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may issue regulations prohibiting the hunting, wounding, killing or possession of doe deer on a state-wide, county or described-area basis, when he finds such action necessary to preserve reasonably adequate breeding stock.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-86e
(1963, P.A. 229; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 279; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)