California Code of Regulations › Title 14 - Natural Resources › Division 1 - Fish and Game Commission-Department of Fish and Game › Subdivision 2 - Game, Furbearers, Nongame, and Depredators › Chapter 6 - Nongame Animals › Section 478.1 - Bobcat Hunting Tags

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Any
				  person who possesses a valid hunting license may, upon payment of the fee
				  specified in Section
				  702, procure only five revocable,
				  nontransferable bobcat hunting tags. Such tags shall be acquired through the
				  department's Automated License Data System terminals at any department license
				  agent or department license sales office. These tags do not act as shipping
				  tags as required in Section
				  479 for pelts taken under a
				  trapping license.
(b) Bobcat
				  hunting tags are valid only during that portion of the current hunting license
				  year in which bobcats may be legally harvested as provided in Section
				  478.
(c) The holder of a bobcat hunting tag shall
				  carry the tag while hunting bobcats. Upon the harvesting of any bobcat, the
				  hunter shall immediately fill out the tag completely, legibly, and permanently,
				  and cut out or punch out and completely remove notches or punch holes for the
				  month and date of the kill. One part of the tag shall be immediately attached
				  to the pelt and kept attached until it is tanned, dried or mounted. The other
				  part of the tag shall be sent immediately to the department.
(d) Possession of any untagged bobcat taken
				  under the authority of the hunting license shall be a violation of this section
				  except that the provisions of this section shall not apply to the owner or
				  tenant of land devoted to the agricultural industry nor to authorized county,
				  state or federal predatory animal control agents operating under a written
				  trapping agreement with the appropriate landowner while on such land and in
				  connection with such agricultural industry. It is unlawful for any person to
				  sell, offer for sale, barter, trade, purchase, transport from this state, or
				  offer for out-of-state shipment by any common carrier any bobcat pelts, or
				  parts thereof taken pursuant to this provision.
(e) Any person who is convicted of violating
				  any provision of this chapter shall forfeit his bobcat hunting tags, and shall
				  not apply for additional tags during the then current hunting license
				  year.
1. Amendment
					 of subsection (b) filed 7-15-85; designated effective tenth day thereafter
					 (Register 85, No. 29). For prior history, see Registers 84, No. 47; 84, No. 29;
					 82, No. 24; 81, No. 20 and 80, No. 21.
2. Amendment of subsection
					 (c) filed 7-1-86; effective upon filing (Register 86, No. 27).
3.
					 Amendment of subsections (b) and (c) filed 7-13-94; operative 7-13-94 pursuant
					 to sections
					 202 and
					 215,
					 Fish and Game Code (Register 94, No. 28).
4. Amendment of subsection
					 (a) filed 6-26-97; operative 6-26-97 pursuant to Fish and Game Code sections
					 202 and
					 215
					 (Register 97, No. 26).
5. Amendment of subsection (a) and amendment
					 of NOTE filed 7-19-2005; operative 7-19-2005 pursuant to Government Code
					 section
					 11343.4
					 (Register 2005, No. 29).
6. Amendment of subsection (a) filed
					 8-4-2006; operative 8-4-2006 pursuant to Government Code section
					 11343.4
					 (Register 2006, No. 31).
7. Amendment of subsections (a) and (c)
					 filed 7-8-2011; operative 7-8-2011 pursuant to Government Code section
					 11343.4
					 (Register 2011, No. 27).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						713 and
						4150,
						Fish and Game Code. Reference: Sections
						713 and
						4150,
						Fish and Game Code.