2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-86c. - Permits to hunt deer and small game with bow and arrow. Fees. Applications. Education course requirement.

No person may hunt deer or small game with a bow and arrow under the provisions of this chapter without a valid permit issued by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection pursuant to this section or section 26-86a for persons hunting deer with bow and arrow under private land deer permits issued free to qualifying landowners, or their husbands or wives, parents, grandparents, lineal descendants or siblings under that section. The fee for such bow and arrow permit to hunt deer and small game shall be forty-one dollars for residents and one hundred thirty-five dollars for nonresidents, or nineteen dollars for any person twelve years of age or older but under sixteen years of age, except that any nonresident who is an active full-time member of the armed forces, as defined in section 27-103, may purchase a bow and arrow permit to hunt deer and small game for the same fee as is charged a resident of the state. Permits to hunt with a bow and arrow under the provisions of this chapter shall be issued only to qualified applicants therefor by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, in such form as said commissioner prescribes. Applications shall be made on forms furnished by the commissioner containing such information as he may require and all such application forms shall have printed thereon: “I declare under the penalties of false statement that the statements herein made by me are true and correct.” Any person who makes any material false statement on such application form shall be guilty of false statement and shall be subject to the penalties provided for false statement and said offense shall be deemed to have been committed in the town in which the applicant resides. No such application shall contain any material false statement. On and after January 1, 2002, permits to hunt with a bow and arrow under the provisions of this chapter shall be issued only to qualified applicants who have successfully completed the conservation education bow hunting course as specified in section 26-31 or an equivalent course in another state.
(1959, P.A. 227, S. 4–6; February, 1965, P.A. 602; 1971, P.A. 871, S. 106; 872, S. 278; P.A. 74-151, S. 5, 7; P.A. 75-304, S. 1, 2; P.A. 82-366, S. 7; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3, S. 10, 21; P.A. 97-250, S. 6; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-1, S. 99; P.A. 03-123, S. 10; 03-276, S. 3; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 459; P.A. 10-3, S. 49; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: 1965 act deleted distinctions between issuance of resident and nonresident licenses; 1971 acts substituted false statement charge and penalty for perjury charge and penalty and replaced state board of fisheries and game with commissioner of environmental protection; P.A. 74-151 substituted “permit(s)” for “license(s)” and specified applicability of provisions to bow and arrow hunting; P.A. 75-304 reduced fee from $5.35 to $5 and transferred power to issue licenses from town clerks to commissioner, deleting all provisions concerning town clerk's duties; P.A. 82-366 amended the section to revise the requirement that permits for hunting deer with bow and arrow be issued only to persons 16 and older for consistency with new junior license categories established by Sec. 26-27a; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3 amended section to authorize hunting of small game with bow and arrow, to increase the fee for all bow hunting and to delete a requirement that moneys received under this section be deposited in the general fund; P.A. 97-250 provided for issuance of permits to take deer with bow and arrow to persons holding private land deer permits and provided that, on and after January 1, 2002, permits to hunt deer with bow and arrow under this chapter shall only be issued to persons who have completed an education course under Sec. 26-31; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-1 increased permit fee from $22 to $30 for residents and from $44 to $100 for nonresidents, effective January 1, 2003; P.A. 03-123 made technical changes, effective June 26, 2003; P.A. 03-276 added exception re an active full-time member of the armed forces, effective July 1, 2003; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 increased fees; P.A. 10-3 reduced fee for residents from $60 to $41, for nonresidents from $200 to $135 and for persons 12 or older but under 16 from $26 to $19, effective April 14, 2010; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.