For purposes of this chapter: “Commission” means the Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. “Department” means the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. “Operator” means a person licensed to operate a shooting preserve or a commercial wildlife enclosure.
The season for shooting preserves shall be for a period of seven (7) months beginning October 1 and ending April 30, except as further restricted by the operator.
Artificially propagated pheasants, quail, chukar partridges, mallards and black ducks, and any game bird authorized by the commission are the only game which may be hunted on shooting preserves under this chapter. Mallards and black ducks released on a shooting preserve must have a one-fourth (1/4) inch hole punched in the outer web of the […]
The operating licenses issued by the department shall entitle licensees, and their guests or customers, to recover the total number of each species of game released on the premises each year.
Operators may establish shooting limitations and restrictions on the age, sex and number of each species of released game that may be taken by each person.
Any native wild game found on shooting preserves or commercial wildlife enclosures may be harvested only in accordance with applicable game and hunting laws and regulations issued by the commission or the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The operator shall furnish and issue a consecutively numbered certificate to any hunter or person leaving with harvested game. The certificate shall bear the license number and name of the shooting preserve or commercial wildlife enclosure or its licensed operator. The certificate shall contain the person’s name, address, date of issuance and number and species […]
Each operator shall maintain a registration book listing the names and hunting license numbers of all hunters and the date on which they hunted. An accurate record must be maintained of the total number, by species, of game released and harvested each day the preserve or enclosure is hunted. The operator shall submit this information […]
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this chapter is guilty of a Class I violation, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided in Section 49-7-141. A multiple violator of this chapter shall be assessed double the maximum allowable fine.
This chapter shall not apply to the operation of fox, coyote and rabbit enclosures as set forth in Section 49-7-34, Mississippi Code of 1972, and shall not be construed to regulate the operation of fox, coyote and rabbit enclosures.
The department may issue operating licenses to any person, partnership, association or corporation for the operation of shooting preserves or commercial wildlife enclosures that meet the following requirements and any applicable regulations: Each shooting preserve shall contain a minimum of one hundred (100) acres in one (1) tract of leased or owned land (including water […]
The fee for a shooting preserve license or a commercial wildlife enclosure license shall be One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per year for the first three hundred (300) acres of shooting preserve area or commercial wildlife enclosure area, and Ten Dollars ($10.00) per year for each additional one hundred (100) acres or parts thereof.
Each license issued by the department shall designate whether or not the preserve or commercial wildlife enclosure is open to the public on a commercial basis, or is restricted to a membership or other limited group. In the latter case, the license shall specify that the area is a restricted shooting preserve or commercial wildlife […]
This chapter is supplemental and in addition to any other laws on related subject matters. Any license required under this chapter is in addition to any other licenses which may be required for commercial raising and sale of game birds or for the raising of game birds for propagation.
