Alabama Administrative Code › Title 220 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES › Chapter 220-2 - GAME AND FISH DIVISION › Section 220-2-.109 - Physically Disabled Hunting Areas

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1) It shall be unlawful on any area
			 designated by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources as a
			 "Physically Disabled Hunting Area":
(a) To
			 violate any terms or conditions of his certificate of qualification, permit, or
			 other authorization, for participation in any such hunts, including, but not
			 limited to, the times, dates, locations, manners and means for
			 hunting.
(b) To hunt, trap, use
			 dogs, possess firearms, traps, or bow and arrow, without a valid permit. A
			 permit is valid only during scheduled area seasons during legal hunting hours
			 and only with the required hunting license(s) and stamps and only with weapons
			 and ammunition permitted for hunting the wildlife listed on permit.
(c) To have in possession any fully automatic
			 rifle or any firearms, ammunition or bow and arrow (including crossbows) except
			 as allowed by law for the species hunted.
(d) For any person to hunt without having
			 his/her required hunting licenses and authorization and checking in at the
			 checking station, except Big Oak.
(e) For any person to carry firearms in or on
			 vehicle with ammunition in the magazine, breech or clip attached to firearms,
			 cocked crossbow, or black powder weapons with primer, cap or flash powder in
			 place.
(f) Nothing in this
			 regulation shall prohibit the possession of handguns by lawfully authorized
			 persons for their personal protection, provided the handguns are not used to
			 hunt or take or to attempt to take wildlife except as otherwise provided by
			 this regulation.
(g) To camp in the
			 area, except Big Oak where the designated campground must be used.
(h) To kill or willfully molest any species
			 of wildlife except those designated for hunting. However, bobcat, or fox may be
			 killed during all scheduled area hunts that occur during the dates of the gun
			 deer and turkey seasons, and coyote or feral swine may be killed during all
			 scheduled area hunts.
(i) To
			 discharge fireworks at any time.
(j) To discharge firearms for target
			 practice.
(k) To use fire to smoke
			 out game.
(l) For any person to
			 possess any firearm while hunting with bow and arrow.
(m) To transport deer killed from the area
			 before recording pertinent data at the designated checking station, except Big
			 Oak.
(n) For any person except
			 those authorized to operate any motor driven vehicle behind, under or around
			 any locked gate, barricaded road or sign which prohibits vehicular
			 traffic.
(o) For any person to hunt
			 deer or assist in said hunting, on days of scheduled hunts without wearing a
			 vest containing a minimum of 144 square inches of hunter orange color or either
			 a full size hunter orange hat or cap. The hunter orange must be of solid color,
			 except for a small logo and/or printing on the front of the cap, and visible
			 from any angle.
(p) For any person
			 except authorized personnel to block or otherwise stop traffic on any road by
			 parking a vehicle in such a way that passage around the vehicle is
			 impossible.
(q) To damage or remove
			 any trees, crops, or other plants, dirt, gravel or sod without legal
			 authorization.
(r) To hunt from an
			 elevated platform, except at Big Oak (where it is unlawful to hunt from an
			 elevated stand or platform without attaching themselves to the tree or platform
			 with a full body harness capable of supporting their weight).
(s) To hunt without first making a
			 reservation for the particular hunt, except at Big Oak.
(t) To hunt more often at any area than is
			 authorized. Failure to cancel a reservation at least 48 hours prior to the hunt
			 date will be considered the same as if the individual hunted in determining
			 when that person could reserve another hunt date, except at Big Oak.
(u) To hunt outside the area designated to
			 the hunter for each hunt. At the time of check-in the hunter will receive, on a
			 first come basis, a shooting house on a segment of the hunting area that will
			 be his/her exclusive area for the day, except at Big Oak. Hunter must hunt from
			 the shooting house, except at Big Oak.
(v) To check-in to any Physically Disabled
			 Hunting Area prior to 5 am on the scheduled hunt days.
(w) To change stand locations after signing
			 in for that stand. Once signed in for a stand, the hunter shall not change
			 stands for the duration of that hunt.
(x) For any person to be on any Physically
			 Disabled Hunting Area unless registered to hunt on that day.