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MS Code § 49-7-8 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-8. Hunting, fishing or trapping license for nonresident; fees; violations

  No nonresident sixteen (16) years of age or older may hunt, fish, kill, take or trap any game animal, bird or fish without having acquired and having in his immediate possession a valid license issued by the Mississippi Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.   The commission shall have the following duties and powers:   To prescribe the forms and types of nonresident licenses that a nonresident must obtain;   To determine the total number of each type of nonresident license to be issued annually;   To establish fees for nonresident licenses and the collection fees for the agent issuing such licenses; provided, however, that the fee for a nonresident all game hunting license shall not be less than Sixty Dollars ($60.00);   To exercise all incidental powers necessary to develop a nonresident licensing program.     A nonresident who violates this section or any licensing regulation of the commission is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided in Section 49-7-21(3).
MS Code § 49-7-12 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-12. Reciprocal agreements with other states; nonresident freshwater commercial fishing licenses; fees; penalties

  The commission may promulgate rules and regulations for nonresident recreational and commercial permits and licenses in order to promote and to enter into reciprocal agreements with other states.   The commission may issue and prescribe the forms, types and fees of nonresident freshwater commercial fishing licenses to be sold by the department and not by licensing agents.     The commission may prescribe regulations for nonresident commercial fishing equipment, tagging requirements, harvest size and possession restrictions, restricted areas, fishing restrictions, reporting requirements, wholesale dealers, and the selling, reselling and exporting of fish taken in the public freshwaters of the state.   The commission may exercise all powers necessary to regulate nonresident freshwater commercial fishing.     The commission may require a nonresident to purchase the same type and number of freshwater commercial fishing licenses and pay the same fees that are required of Mississippi residents to engage in like activity in the nonresident's state.   Any nonresident who engages in freshwater commercial fishing without having the required licenses is guilty of a Class I violation and punishable as provided under Section 49-7-141 and shall forfeit any equipment, gear or nets used in the offense.
MS Code § 49-7-12.1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-12.1. Nonresident wholesale dealers who buy certain fish and nonresidents who import certain fish are required to obtain commercial fishing licenses

  Nonresident wholesale dealers who buy nongame gross fish in the state for the purpose of resale shall obtain a nonresident commercial fishing license.   Any nonresident who imports nongame gross fish into the state for the purpose of resale to a wholesale or retail dealer or to a consumer shall obtain a nonresident commercial fishing license.
MS Code § 49-7-16 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-16. Fur dealer or regular buyer of fur bearing animals; license; fees; possession of furs; tagging

  Any person, whether a resident or nonresident of this state, who is a fur dealer, or who regularly buys fur-bearing animals from trappers or hunters, shall be required to obtain a license under this section. Application for such license shall be made to any of the officials authorized to issue licenses under Chapter 7 of Title 49, Mississippi Code of 1972. The license fee shall be Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for residents, together with the fee provided in Section 49-7-17. The license shall be good for one (1) year from the date of issuance unless suspended or revoked earlier, and it is renewable upon payment of the fee. The license shall be carried on the person of the holder whenever he is engaged in the business of fur dealer or engaged in buying fur-bearing animals.   Dealers or those persons who regularly buy fur-bearing animals from trappers or hunters are authorized to possess inventories of dried or stretched furs and skins at any time. However, dealers or other fur buyers are authorized to buy, transport, sell or offer for sale inventories of fur for only ninety (90) days beyond the close of the trapping season set by the commission. The commission shall, in its discretion, extend the ninety-day period for buying, transporting, selling or offering for sale inventories of fur.   The commission may require tagging of furs to account for harvest of a species in a specific location. Dealers shall be required to maintain accurate records of purchases. Such dealer records and fur houses shall be open to conservation officers on request for inspection without warrant.   Persons acquiring fur for the sole purpose of tanning, dressing, manufacturing or otherwise preparing finished fur products are authorized to buy, sell, possess and transport inventories of fur and finished fur products at any time for these and related purposes.
MS Code § 49-7-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-17. License agents; bonding requirements; additional license fee for officer or person issuing license; additional fee to recoup costs of issuing licenses

  The department may provide for the appointment of persons as license agents to sell license certificates for hunting, trapping or fishing as authorized under Section 49-7-21.  The department may, by administrative rule, establish qualifications, standards and regulations for such license agents.    Each license agent shall be required to be covered under a surety bond. The department may establish, by administrative rule, the procedures for the bonding of its license agents, which procedures may include the implementation of a blanket bonding system. All premiums for surety bonds required under this section shall be at the expense of the license agents.   Any officer or person authorized to issue any hunting or fishing license or permit or any combination game and fish license under the laws of this state shall have the power and authority to collect and retain for the issuance of such license the sum of One Dollar ($1.00), in addition to the license fee provided by law, when such license or permit is sold to a resident of this state. The Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks is authorized, in its discretion, to contract with license agents for services rendered for an additional amount, not to exceed One Dollar ($1.00), in addition to the license fee provided by law.   The Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks is authorized to establish, set and collect an additional fee for any license sold that will recoup the department's cost of issuing the license, conducting any electronic transaction therefor, and generally recovering the department's administrative costs of selling licenses and maintaining the electronic databases of those sales.
MS Code § 49-7-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-19. Prohibition against issuing license to person physically or mentally unfit to carry or use firearm

 It shall be unlawful for any officer, authorized to issue the licenses mentioned in this chapter, to knowingly issue a resident license or nonresident license to any person physically or mentally unfit to carry or use firearms.
MS Code § 49-7-20 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-20. Requirement of satisfactory completion of hunter education course; resident apprentice hunting license; resident combination small game hunting and fishing license

  It is unlawful for any person born on or after January 1, 1972, to procure any Mississippi hunting license, except a resident apprentice hunting license and a resident combination small game hunting and fishing license, unless the person has been issued certification of satisfactory completion of a hunter education course approved by the department.   It is unlawful for any person to issue any Mississippi hunting license, except a resident apprentice hunting license and resident combination small game hunting and fishing license, to any person born on or after January 1, 1972, unless the purchaser has provided valid certification of satisfactory completion of a hunter education course approved by the department.   It is unlawful for any person to fraudulently obtain a hunter education certification.   The department may revoke any hunting license or hunter education certification upon determination that the holder was not entitled to issuance or obtained the license or certification by any fraudulent means.   It is unlawful for any person born on or after January 1, 1972, to hunt with a resident combination small game hunting and fishing license, unless the person has been issued certification of satisfactory completion of a hunter education course approved by the department.
MS Code § 49-7-20.1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-20.1. Child hunter safety; hunter education course; supervision by adult who holds valid Mississippi license for species being hunted

    To reduce hunting accidents of children under license age, to protect the safety of these children and to promote hunter safety, a child at least twelve (12) years of age and under sixteen (16) years of age must have a certificate of satisfactory completion of a hunter education course approved by the department before hunting in this state.   A child at least twelve (12) years of age and under sixteen (16) years of age may hunt without having the certificate of hunter education required under this subsection if the child is in the presence and under the direct supervision of a licensed or exempt hunter at least twenty-one (21) years of age when hunting.     A child under the age of twelve (12) must be in the presence and under the direct supervision of a licensed or exempt hunter at least twenty-one (21) years of age when the child is hunting.   A licensed hunter supervising a child as provided in this section must hold a valid Mississippi license for the species being hunted.   There is no penalty for a violation of this section, but to protect the safety of the child a conservation officer may require the child to end the hunt and may unload the firearm and may take the firearm and the child to an adult.
MS Code § 49-7-22 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-22. Multiyear licenses; fees; additional license fee for person issuing license

  The commission may authorize the issuance of a multiyear license not to exceed four (4) years of any license issued by the commission. The fee for a multiyear license shall be commensurate with the total of the annual fees for the annual license for the number of years of the multiyear license.   A person authorized to issue licenses by the department may collect and retain for issuing each license the fee authorized under Section 49-7-17.
MS Code § 49-7-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-23. Sale of hunting and fishing licenses by constables designated as deputy conservation officers

 The executive director may designate constables as deputy conservation officers, and constables so designated may be permitted to sell hunting and fishing licenses and may retain the fee provided in Section 49-7-17 for issuing each such license.
MS Code § 49-7-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-25. Records and reports

 Each officer authorized to issue licenses shall keep in a book to be supplied to him by the commission, a correct and complete list, in numerical order, of all licenses, resident or nonresident, issued by him. He shall enter at the close of each week the name and residence of each individual to whom a license was issued during that week, and shall on or before the tenth day of each month, forward to the executive director, on blanks furnished to him by the executive director, a complete list of all licenses so granted, with the name and address of each licensee, and shall pay over to the executive director all sums collected by him for licenses during the preceding month, and at the end of the license year shall render a final report and return to the executive director all license stubs and all unused or mutilated license blanks. Thereupon the executive director shall cause the account of the officer to be audited and a final statement furnished such officer on the condition of the account.
MS Code § 49-7-26 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 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

    The department may develop, implement and regulate a tagging and reporting program to collect harvest data and monitor bag limit compliance by any means as provided in this section.   The department may charge a fee for the tagging program.   The department shall provide an annual report to the Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives.       The department may establish a tagging and reporting program for deer harvested by nonresidents.   A nonresident who violates any law or regulation of the nonresident deer tagging program shall be subject to the fine and forfeiture penalties provided for a nonresident hunting without a license under Section 49-7-21. In addition, a nonresident shall be assessed the administrative fee prescribed in this section.       The department may establish a tagging and reporting program for turkey.   A person who violates any law or regulation of the turkey tagging program is guilty of a Class III violation and shall be subject to the fines provided in 49-7-101. In addition, a person shall be assessed the administrative fee prescribed in this section.       A person convicted of a first violation of the tagging program shall be assessed an administrative fee of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), which shall be imposed and collected upon conviction. A person convicted of a second or subsequent violation shall be assessed an administrative fee of not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), which shall be imposed and collected upon conviction.   The clerk of the court shall collect and deposit the administrative fees with the State Treasurer, in the same manner and in accordance with the same procedure, as nearly as practicable, as required for the collection and deposit of state assessments under Section 99-19-73.   The administrative fees shall be credited to the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks and may be expended by the department upon appropriation by the Legislature.     Each deer or turkey taken or possessed in violation of the tagging program is a separate offense.
MS Code § 49-7-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-29. Wholesale minnow dealers

  This section shall be known as the "Mississippi Wholesale Minnow Dealers Law."   Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:   The term "wholesale minnow dealer" means any person selling minnows to a person for resale.   The term "person" means any person, firm or corporation.   The term "minnow" shall only mean golden shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas), fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas), goldfish (Carassius auratus), common carp or Israeli carp (Cyprinus carpio), emerald shiner (Notropis atherinoides), western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis), eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) and gulf killfish (Fundulus grandis).     The department shall license wholesale minnow dealers, as required under this section. However, bona fide residents of Mississippi growing minnows on their own property within the State of Mississippi shall be exempt from these license requirements.   It is unlawful for any person except those exempted by subsection (3) to sell minnows at wholesale within the State of Mississippi without a commercial fishing license.   A resident wholesale minnow dealer shall certify that he is a resident of the state and shall apply to the department for a commercial fishing license.   A nonresident wholesale minnow dealer shall apply to the department for a nonresident commercial fishing license. This nonresident license fee shall be set by the department.   Each sale of minnows in violation of this section shall be punishable as a Class I violation as provided in Section 49-7-141.   A copy of the commercial fishing license shall be carried at all times in each vehicle which transports minnows into or within the State of Mississippi. Each violation of this subsection shall be punishable as a Class I violation as provided in Section 49-7-141. However, no person charged with violating this subsection shall be convicted if he produces in court, or files with the clerk of the court before the date of appearance, proof that he held a valid commercial fishing license at the time that he was charged with a violation.
MS Code § 49-7-30 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-30. Season for nongame gross fish

 The season for taking nongame gross fish by hand or rope shall be from May 1 to July 15.
MS Code § 49-7-31.1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-31.1. Open season on deer; requirements for wearing hunter orange during any firearm season; exceptions; penalties

  When hunting deer during any firearm season on deer, every hunter, whether hunting with a firearm, bow and arrow or any other weapon, must wear in full view at least five hundred (500) square inches of solid unbroken fluorescent orange, except as otherwise provided in this section.   Hunters shall not be required to wear the five hundred (500) square inches of solid unbroken fluorescent orange required under subsection (1) of this section when:   Hunting from a deer stand that is elevated twelve (12) feet or more above the ground; or   Hunting in a fully enclosed blind.     A violation of this section is a Class III violation and is punishable as provided in Section 49-7-101.
MS Code § 49-7-31.2 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-31.2. Open season for game birds

 The open season for game birds shall be as follows:   On bobwhite quail: The season shall open on Thanksgiving Day and run through the first Saturday in March next following.   On pheasant: There shall be no open season on pheasant.   On wild turkey: The commission may fix the spring season between March 1 and May 15. In addition, the commission may fix special fall either-sex seasons.   On migratory birds: The open season for migratory birds shall be the season prescribed by the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty regulations.
MS Code § 49-7-31.3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-31.3. Open season for game animals other than deer

 The open season on game animals except deer shall be as follows:   On squirrel: The season shall open on October 1 and run through February 28 next following. In addition, the commission is authorized to set a season that shall open not earlier than May 15 and run not later than June 1 next following.   On rabbits: The season shall open on the Saturday nearest October 15 and run through February 28 next following, and when rabbits are depredating or destroying crops, the owner of the crops or his tenants may shoot the rabbits with guns.
MS Code § 49-7-31.4 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 49-7-31.4. Open season on fur-bearing animals; hunting raccoons and bobcats with dogs; additional open season on raccoons

  The commission may fix the open season on fur-bearing animals between November 1 and March 15 next following and fix the open season for hunting opossums, raccoons and bobcats with dogs and guns by licensed hunters from October 1 to March 15 next following; but raccoons and bobcats may be run, hunted, chased or pursued throughout the year with dogs by licensed hunters.   The commission may establish an additional open season on raccoon from July 1 through October 1, and the bag limit on raccoon during the additional open season shall be one (1) per party, per night.
MS Code § 49-7-31.5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing|In General|§ 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

  The hunting, trapping and taking of nuisance animals shall be regulated by the commission. The commission may adopt regulations to regulate the hunting, trapping and taking of nuisance animals and to control the population of nuisance animals.     Landowners, agricultural leaseholders or their designated agents may take predatory and nuisance animals year-round on lands owned or leased by them.   Landowners, agricultural leaseholders or their designated agents may take nuisance animals with any type of weapon and may take nuisance animals during the night after legal hunting hours on lands owned or leased by them with a permit issued by the department.   No license is required for a resident landowner hunting or trapping nuisance animals on his own land. An agricultural leaseholder, designated agent and any other person must possess either an all-game hunting license or trapping license, unless otherwise exempt.   No license is required for a recipient of the Purple Heart Medal for wounds suffered in combat, to hunt nuisance animals on private lands. Persons exempt from purchasing a hunting license under this paragraph shall have in their possession and on their person a copy of their DD-214 discharge form indicating the receipt of the Purple Heart Medal and any proof as may be required by the commission or the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, while engaged in such activities.     The taking of any animal or animals other than nuisance animals by the use of a trap or traps is unlawful except during the time the season is open for the taking of fur-bearing animals.   Nuisance animals may be run, chased or pursued with dogs, except as provided in Section 49-7-32, year-round by licensed hunters.   Nuisance animals may be hunted with the aid of electronic calls.   Nuisance animals may be hunted or trapped with the aid of bait and lures, on private lands, according to regulations adopted by the commission.   Any part of a nuisance animal may be bought and sold year-round.     Wild hogs may not be caught or trapped and released into the wild at a location different from the location where the wild hog was caught or trapped.   A violation of this subsection is a Class I violation and is punishable as provided under Section 49-7-141.     When hunting wild hogs during any open gun season on deer, a hunter must wear in full view at least five hundred (500) square inches of solid unbroken fluorescent orange.