Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 321 CMR - DIVISION OF FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE › Title 321 CMR 3.00 - Hunting › Section 3.03 - Hunting in Certain Areas

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
(1)
Special Regulations for Hunting on the Delaney Wildlife Management
			 Area in the Towns of Stow, Harvard and Bolton, Massachusetts.
By
			 the authority vested in me, pursuant to
			 321
			 CMR 3.01(1)(r)  as
			 established in accordance with the provision of M.G.L. c. 131, § 6, I
			 herewith establish the following special regulations governing hunting on the
			 Delaney Wildlife Management Area in the Towns of Stow, Harvard and Bolton
			 during the prescribed hunting season for waterfowl as established in
			 321
			 CMR 3.02(2).
(a) A permit system of hunting is hereby
			 initiated that shall require a person, duly licensed to hunt in Massachusetts,
			 to obtain a written permit from the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and
			 Wildlife to hunt on certain designated days and time periods of the Delaney
			 Wildlife Management Area during the established hunting seasons for waterfowl.
			 Such designated days shall be: The first four days of the open waterfowl
			 season. In the event that the first Saturday immediately following the opening
			 day of the waterfowl season is not one of the first four days of the open
			 waterfowl season it shall also be a designated day. In the event of two opening
			 days for the waterfowl season in one calendar year (split waterfowl season)
			 designated days will apply only to the first part of the split
			 season.
(b) All applications for a
			 permit shall be in writing and shall include a stamped, self-addressed
			 envelope.
(c) Applications shall be
			 received not later than October 4th and shall be
			 addressed to:
Division of Fisheries and Wildlife
Northeast Wildlife District Headquarters
85 Fitchburg Rd.
Ayer, MA 01432
(d) Applicants shall not submit more than one
			 application for each designated day.
(e) Permits issued shall be valid only for
			 the designated day and period as specified on the permit. For this purpose,
			 "time period" shall mean either that period from ½ hour before sunrise
			 to 12:00 P.M. or from 12:00 P.M. to sunset and shall apply from only to those
			 designated days when a permit is required. A person authorized by permit to
			 hunt on a designated day shall be limited to only one of these time periods for
			 that particular designated day. A person hunting from a specified blind site
			 during the time period from ½ hour before sunrise to 12:00 P.M. shall be
			 prepared to vacate said blind site by 12:00 P.M. in order to allow the next
			 scheduled permittee access to the blind.
(f) All shooting shall be from the specific
			 blind sites only. This shall apply to designated and non-designated days alike.
			 Shooting other than from a blind site is prohibited, except a hunter in pursuit
			 of crippled waterfowl.
(g) On
			 designated days, a person, except a hunter in pursuit of crippled waterfowl,
			 shall not hunt other than from the blind site specified on the
			 permit.
(h) A person hunting on
			 designated days shall report to parking lot #1 located off Old Harvard Road for
			 parking instructions.
(i) A person
			 hunting at the Delaney Wildlife Management Area shall abide by and adhere to
			 321
			 CMR 3.03(1)  as they apply
			 and any other pertinent law or regulation including
			 321
			 CMR 3.01(1), excepting that
			 such persons shall not be required to wear on his head a "hunter orange" cap or
			 hat and, further, that the legal shooting hours shall be in compliance with
			 321
			 CMR 3.02(2)  established for
			 the hunting of migratory game birds.
(j) Permits are not required of persons
			 hunting other than on those designated days as specified. On non-designated
			 days, blinds shall be occupied on a first come, first-served basis. No more
			 than three people shall hunt from or be within a specified blind site at any
			 one time.
(k) Each permit issued on
			 a designated day and time period shall entitle the permittee, and not more than
			 two other persons, duly licensed or otherwise authorized to hunt in
			 Massachusetts, to hunt from a blind site as specified on the permit.
(l) On designated days, unoccupied blind
			 sites may be filled at the discretion of the attendant Division of Fisheries
			 and Wildlife personnel.
(m) These
			 special regulations shall become part of
			 321 CMR
			 3.01(1)
									®.