Section 45-51-220 Hunting preserve – License required. Any person, firm, or corporation desiring to operate a hunting or shooting preserve commercially in Montgomery County on which artificially propagated birds may be hunted, taken, captured, killed, harvested, or otherwise recovered, may do so upon obtaining a hunting preserve license and complying with this article and all […]
Section 45-51-220.01 Hunting preserve – Site requirements. Each hunting preserve shall contain a minimum of 100 acres in one tract of leased or owned land, including water area, if any, and shall be restricted to not more than 1,000 contiguous acres including water, if any. The exterior boundaries of each hunting preserve shall be bordered […]
Section 45-51-220.02 Hunting preserve – Game requirements. Game which may be hunted on a preserve licensed under this article shall be artificially propagated or pen-raised bobwhite quail, pheasants, chuckar partridge, and such other species of fowl as the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall designate. A minimum stock of at least 1,000 bobwhite quail, […]
Section 45-51-220.03 Hunting preserve – License or permit fees; inspections. The privilege license or permit fee for operating a hunting preserve shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) per year for the first 100 acres of hunting preserve plus five dollars ($5) per year for each additional 100 acres or part thereof. Any person who desires to […]
Section 45-51-220.04 Hunting preserve – Limits on harvest; hunting period. The holder of a license issued pursuant to this article, his or her guest, and patrons may hunt, take, capture, kill, harvest, or otherwise recover during the year no more than 80 percent of the total number of each species of birds released on the […]
Section 45-51-220.05 Hunting preserve – Tagging of bob-white quail. Bobwhite quail shall be tagged with a self-sealing tag prior to being released on the preserve. The operators of hunting preserves shall cooperate in other requests which the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources might make for scientific investigations. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources […]
Section 45-51-220.06 Hunting preserve – Recordkeeping; inspection of records. Each hunting preserve operator shall maintain a register and record therein the names, addresses, hunting license numbers, the date on which each hunted, and the amount and species of game taken by each hunter. An accurate record by species shall also be maintained of the total […]
Section 45-51-220.07 Hunting preserve – Hunting licenses required of patrons; operators as agent vendors of licenses. Alabama hunting licenses shall be required of all persons hunting on licensed hunting preserves. Alabama residents shall be licensed under the regularly established game laws. Each nonresident hunting on a licensed preserve shall be required to possess a regular […]
Section 45-51-220.08 Hunting preserve – Enforcement of game and fish laws. Duly authorized agents of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, game wardens, and other law enforcement officers duly authorized to enforce game and fish laws shall have the authority to enforce all game and fish laws and regulations on such preserves; and for […]
Section 45-51-220.09 Hunting preserve – Violations; license revocation. Any person, firm, or corporation who is found guilty of operating a licensed hunting preserve in violation of this article, upon conviction, shall have his or her hunting preserve license revoked forthwith. (Act 79-637, p. 1118, § 10.)
