Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 3 - DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION › Division 10 - Conservation Commission › Chapter 5 - Wildlife Code: Permits › Section 3 CSR 10-5.205 - Permits Required; Exceptions

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule establishes requirements for
				  hunting, fishing, and trapping permits, and certain exceptions to those
				  requirements.
(1) Any person
				who chases, pursues, takes, transports, ships, buys, sells, possesses, or uses
				wildlife in any manner must first obtain the prescribed hunting, fishing,
				trapping, or other permit, or be exempted under
				3 CSR
				10-9.110, with the following exceptions:
(A) A resident landowner as defined in this
				Code, may hunt, trap, or fish as prescribed in Chapters 6, 7, and 8 without
				permit (except black bear and elk hunting permits and landowner deer, and
				turkey hunting permits, Migratory Bird Hunting Permit, and Conservation Order
				Permit as prescribed), but only on land s/he owns and may transport and possess
				wildlife so taken;
(B) Any resident
				of Missouri sixty-five (65) years of age or older may take fish, live bait,
				clams, mussels, turtles, and frogs as provided in Chapter 6 without permit
				(except trout permit or daily tag in areas where pre-scribed); provided, while
				fishing, s/he carries a valid Missouri driver license, notarized affidavit, or
				similar official document proving his/her eligibility based on residency and
				age, and shall submit documentation for inspection by any agent of the
				department on request;
(C) Any
				resident of Missouri sixty-five (65) years of age or older may take wildlife as
				provided in Chapter 7 without permit (except all black bear, deer, elk, and
				turkey hunting permits, Migratory Bird Hunting Permit, and Conservation Order
				Permit as prescribed); provided, while hunting, s/he carries a valid Missouri
				driver license, notarized affidavit, or similar official document proving
				his/her eligibility based on residency and age, and shall submit documentation
				for inspection by any agent of the department on request;
(D) Any person fifteen (15) years of age or
				younger may take fish, live bait, clams, mussels, turtles, and frogs as
				provided in Chapter 6 without permit (except trout permit or daily tag in areas
				where prescribed);
(E) Any person
				fifteen (15) years of age or younger may take wildlife (except black bears,
				deer, elk, and turkeys) as provided in Chapter 7 without permit provided, s/he
				has in his/her possession a valid hunter education certificate card or s/he is
				in the immediate presence of a properly licensed adult hunter who is eighteen
				(18) years of age or older and has in his/her possession a valid hunter
				education certificate card or was born before January 1, 1967. Persons under
				eleven (11) years of age may not purchase firearms deer and turkey hunting
				permits except as provided in subsection (1)(F) of this rule (see
				3 CSR
				10-5.215(4));
(F) Any person at least six (6) but not older
				than fifteen (15) years of age may purchase deer and turkey hunting permits
				without display of a hunter education certificate card. Except as provided in
				subsection (1)(G) of this rule, such person must hunt in the immediate presence
				of a properly licensed adult hunter who is eighteen (18) years of age or older
				and has in his/her possession a valid hunter education certificate card or was
				born before January 1, 1967;
(G)
				During the youth portions of the firearms deer hunting season and the youth
				spring turkey hunting season, youth hunters purchasing permits as provided in
				subsection (1)(F) must hunt in the immediate presence of an adult who is
				eighteen (18) years of age or older and has in his/her possession a valid
				hunter education certificate card or was born before January 1, 1967. Any adult
				meeting these requirements may accompany youth deer or turkey hunters as
				prescribed in this subsection without a permit;
(H) Any person at least eleven (11) but not
				older than fifteen (15) years of age with a hunter education certificate card
				and a valid black bear or elk hunting permit may hunt in the immediate presence
				of an adult who is eighteen (18) years of age or older and has in his/her
				possession a valid hunter education certificate card or was born before January
				1, 1967. Any adult meeting these requirements may accompany youth black bear or
				elk hunters as prescribed in this subsection without a permit;
(I) Any resident of Missouri fifteen (15)
				years of age or younger may take wildlife as provided in Chapter 8 without
				permit;
(J) Any person born on or
				after January 1, 1967, and at least sixteen (16) years of age and who does not
				possess a valid hunter education certificate card may purchase an Apprentice
				Hunter Authorization for no more than two (2) permit years (March 1 through the
				last day of February). The Apprentice Hunter Authorization allows the holder to
				purchase any firearms hunting permit (except black bear and elk hunting
				permits) as provided in this chapter without display of a hunter education
				certificate card. Such person must hunt in the immediate presence of a properly
				licensed adult hunter who is eighteen (18) years of age or older and who has in
				his/her possession a valid hunter education certificate card or was born before
				January 1, 1967;
(K) Any resident
				of Missouri with a developmental disability as defined in section
				630.005, RSMo, born
				on or after January 1, 1967, and at least sixteen (16) years of age and who has
				taken the Hunter Education Certification Course may purchase any firearms
				hunting permit as provided in this chapter without display of a valid hunter
				education certificate card, provided s/he carries a physician's statement
				provided by the department and signed by a licensed physician qualified to
				evaluate and treat the condition described and certifies the person has this
				disability. Such person must hunt in the immediate presence of a properly
				licensed adult hunter who is eighteen (18) years of age or older and who has in
				his/her possession a valid hunter education certificate card or was born before
				January 1, 1967, except any adult meeting these requirements may accompany
				without a permit such person with a developmental disability who is hunting on
				a valid black bear or elk hunting permit during the prescribed black bear or
				elk hunting seasons. Printed copies of the physician's statement form can be
				obtained from the Missouri Department of Conservation, PO Box 180, Jefferson
				City, MO 65102-0180 and online at
www.missouriconservation.org
;
(L) Any hospital patient may fish
				without permit on the grounds of the hospital where under treatment;
(M) The director may issue special fishing
				permits for specified dates without cost to supervised groups involved in
				rehabilitation programs or groups of hospital patients or persons with
				disabilities under therapy;
(N) The
				director may issue special fishing permits authorizing persons assigned as
				trainees to a training or rehabilitation unit performing organized conservation
				or agricultural work under governmental supervision on federal, state, county,
				or municipal lands to take fish by gig and pole and line methods and to take
				frogs by fishing methods on the public lands where such conservation or
				agricultural work is being performed, under regulations applicable to the area.
				Any person while exercising such privileges shall carry identification, issued
				by the training agency, showing current assignment to the training or
				rehabilitation unit;
(O) For
				educational purposes, the director may waive fishing permit or tag requirements
				for specified periods at specified sites and may authorize fishing in
				restricted waters;
(P) Any resident
				of Missouri having a visual acuity not exceeding twenty/two hundred (20/200) in
				the better eye with maximum correction, or having twenty degrees (20°) or
				less field of visual concentric contraction, and any resident who is so
				severely and permanently disabled as to be unable to move freely without the
				aid of a wheelchair, may take fish, live bait, clams, mussels, turtles, and
				frogs as provided in Chapter 6 without permit (except trout permit or daily tag
				in areas where prescribed); provided, while fishing, s/he carries a certified
				statement of eligibility from a licensed ophthalmologist or optometrist or from
				a licensed physician;
(Q) Any
				resident of Missouri with cerebral palsy or mental disorder or a mental illness
				as defined in section
				630.005, RSMo, and
				who is so severely disabled that s/he cannot fish alone, may take fish, live
				bait, clams, mussels, turtles, and frogs as provided in Chapter 6 without
				permit (except trout permit or daily tag in areas where prescribed); provided,
				while fishing, s/he is accompanied by a licensed adult fisherman and possesses
				a certified statement of eligibility from a licensed physician qualified to
				evaluate and treat the developmentally disabled;
(R) Any honorably discharged military veteran
				having a service-related disability of sixty percent (60%) or greater, or who
				was a prisoner of war during military service, or any member of the U.S.
				military currently assigned as a patient to a Warrior Transition Brigade,
				Warrior Transition Unit, or a military medical center, may take fish, live
				bait, clams, mussels, turtles, and frogs as provided in Chapter 6 without
				permit (except trout permit or daily tag in areas where prescribed), and may
				take wildlife as provided in Chapter 7 without permit (except black bear, deer,
				elk, and turkey hunting permits, Migratory Bird Hunting Permit, and
				Conservation Order Permit as prescribed); provided, while hunting or fishing,
				s/he carries a certified statement of eligibility from the U.S. Department of
				Veterans Affairs, or orders showing assignment to a Warrior Transition Unit or
				admissions verification to a military medical center;
(S) Any Missouri resident who is the owner of
				land that wholly encloses a body of water, or any member of his/her immediate
				household, may fish without permit in those waters. In the case of corporate
				ownership, this privilege shall apply to those corporate owners whose domicile
				is on such corporate-owned land;
(T) Any person may fish without permit, trout
				permit, and prescribed area daily tag during free fishing days. Free fishing
				days are the Saturday and Sunday following the first Monday in June;
				and
(U) A customer or guest of a
				licensed trout fishing area may fish for trout without permit (see
				3 CSR
				10-9.645).