Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 86a - Deer Hunting › Section 26-86a-2 - Permits and Tags

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The issuance of firearm permits on
			 state-owned lands designated by the commissioner and listed in the applicable
			 annual Connecticut Hunting and Trapping Guide shall be on the basis of a random
			 computer selection of single accurately completed applications. The number of
			 permits to be issued shall be predetermined by the commissioner and announced
			 prior to the actual selection of permits. No person may be selected for more
			 than one state land firearms deer permit.
(b) No deer permit may be used unless it is
			 validated by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and signed
			 by the hunter upon receipt. A state land deer permit is valid only for the area
			 for which it is identified. A landowner deer permit is valid only for the
			 property listed on the application by which such permit was obtained. A valid
			 deer permit shall be carried while hunting.
(c) Immediately upon killing a deer, and
			 before moving the carcass in any manner from where it was killed, a person
			 shall write their conservation identification number; name; date and time of
			 kill; town of kill; and permit type on a tag and then sign their name. This
			 tag, signed and with complete information shall be kept with the deer at all
			 times until the carcass is cut up and packaged for consumption.
(d) No person shall change or alter deer
			 permits or loan to another or permit another to have or use such permit issued
			 to himself or use any permit issued to another.
(e) No person shall obtain more than one of
			 the same type deer permit in any one year other than as specified in section
			 26-86a-8(c)
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.
(f) Information contained in the application
			 for such deer permits, which is determined to be false or misleading shall be
			 cause for rejecting or revoking such applications or permits.
(g) No landowner shall make more than one
			 application for the free landowner deer season permit for the same
			 person.
(h) Persons checking
			 antlerless deer legally harvested pursuant to private land deer permits at
			 designated deer check stations may be issued a replacement antlerless only deer
			 tag. Such tag shall be valid in the designated management zone during the
			 designated season indicated on such tag by the commissioner only. Any person
			 who checks a total of three antlerless deer at designated check stations may be
			 issued a replacement either-sex deer tag for use during that same season in the
			 designated management zones designated on such tag by the
			 commissioner.
(i) Persons checking
			 antlerless deer legally harvested pursuant to state land deer permits at
			 designated deer check stations may be issued a replacement antlerless only deer
			 tag. Such tag shall be valid on designated state lands indicated on such tag by
			 the commissioner. Any person who checks a total of three antlerless deer at
			 designated check stations may be issued a replacement either-sex deer tag for
			 use during that same season on state lands designated on such tag by the
			 commissioner.
(j) Deer taken as
			 antlerless-only with a private land shotgun/rifle permit may only be taken on
			 days and in the zones specified on the permit.