2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-35. - Expiration date. License not transferable. Restrictions. Wildlife management study area.

Each firearms hunting, archery hunting, trapping or sport fishing license or the combination firearms hunting and fishing license, except licenses issued pursuant to subdivisions (4), (19) and (21) of subsection (a) of section 26-28, shall expire December thirty-first next following the date of issue and shall not be transferable. No person shall change or alter such a license or loan to another or permit another to have or use such license issued to himself or use any license issued to another. All licenses shall be carried as designated by the commissioner at all times when such licensee is hunting, trapping or sport fishing and shall be produced for examination upon demand of any conservation officer or other employee of the department designated by the commissioner or any other officer authorized to make arrests or the owner or lessee or the agent of any owner or lessee of any land or water upon which such licensed person may be found. Whenever the commissioner has designated any land or water area a wildlife management study area, he may require such licensee to surrender his license upon entering such area and issue to the licensee an arm band, back tag or other identification. The license shall be returned to the licensee upon leaving such area. Each person receiving a license to hunt or to trap shall make an annual report to the commissioner in such form and at such time as may be required by him showing the numbers and kinds of birds and quadrupeds killed or trapped. A firearms hunting or a combination firearms hunting and fishing license shall not authorize the carrying or possession of a pistol or revolver, except as provided in section 26-82a.
(1949 Rev., S. 4871; 1955, S. 2464d; 1963, P.A. 329, S. 5; 1967, P.A. 244, S. 4; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 232; P.A. 76-5; P.A. 77-171, S. 2; P.A. 82-366, S. 5; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3, S. 3, 21; P.A. 97-250, S. 1; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 444; P.A. 10-99, S. 2; P.A. 14-122, S. 41.)
History: 1963 act made changes to reflect switch from separate licenses to hunt and to trap to licenses to hunt and trap, deleting obsolete provision which forbade those licensed only to trap to carry firearms while visiting traps; 1967 act added references to separate hunting licenses; 1971 act replaced references to board of fisheries and game, its members and its director with references to environmental protection commissioner and employees of environmental protection department; P.A. 76-5 added provisions governing licensee's surrender of his license when he enters a wildlife management study area; P.A. 77-171 excepted licenses issued pursuant to Sec. 26-28(a)(4) from generally applicable expiration date; P.A. 82-366 made technical revisions to reflect changes in license categories made by Sec. 26-30; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3 deleted provision requiring the commissioner to provide a license holder and deleted provision requiring a license holder to display the license on his outer clothing while hunting, fishing or trapping; P.A. 97-250 deleted reference to Subdiv. (9) and added reference to Subdivs. (7) and (10) of Sec. 26-28(a) to clarify that lifetime licenses issued to senior citizens and three-day nonresident fishing licenses are not subject to the provisions of this section re expiration of licenses; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 replaced reference to Sec. 26-28(a)(7) and (10) with reference to Sec. 26-28(a)(4), (17) and (19); P.A. 10-99 added exception for Sec. 26-82a from prohibition on carrying or possession of revolver pursuant to firearms hunting or combination firearms hunting and fishing license, effective June 2, 2010; P.A. 14-122 replaced reference to Sec. 26-28(a)(17) with reference to Sec. 26-28(a)(21).