Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 3 - DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION › Division 10 - Conservation Commission › Chapter 4 - Wildlife Code: General Provisions › Section 3 CSR 10-4.110 - General Prohibition; Applications

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment removes a
				section that is redundant with verbiage contained in 3 CSR 10-4.200 Chronic
				Wasting Disease; Management Zones.
(1) No bird, fish, crayfish, mussel,
				amphibian, reptile, mammal, or other form of wildlife, including wildlife
				raised or held in captivity, or their homes, dens, nests, eggs, and larvae in
				Missouri shall be molested, pursued, taken, hunted, trapped, tagged, marked,
				enticed, poisoned, killed, transported, stored, served, bought, sold, given
				away, accepted, possessed, propagated, imported, exported, or liberated to the
				wild in any manner, number, part, parcel, or quantity, at any time, except as
				specifically permitted by these rules and any laws consistent with Article IV,
				sections 40-46 of the Constitution of Missouri; however, this Code shall not
				apply to other invertebrates except as specifically provided.
(2) All hours and times listed in this Code
				shall be based on prevailing local time unless specifically designated
				otherwise.
(3) Except as otherwise
				provided in this Code, wildlife may be taken only by holders of the prescribed
				permits and in accordance with prescribed methods.
(4) Birds, game mammals, furbearers, fish,
				bullfrogs and green frogs, mussels, crayfish, and common snapping and
				soft-shelled turtles may be taken only within the limits and during the open
				seasons prescribed in this Code; provided, in a situation of emergency where
				the public interest justifies extraordinary salvage measures to prevent or
				minimize waste, the director may authorize the taking and possession of
				wildlife by provisions other than those established in this Code, for a period
				not to exceed ninety (90) days.
(5)
				No person, corporation, municipality, county, business, or other public or
				private entity shall cause or allow any deleterious substance to be placed,
				run, or drained into any of the waters of this state in quantities sufficient
				to injure, stupefy, or kill fish or other wildlife which may inhabit such
				waters.
(6) No person shall
				administer, by any means, any contraceptive or reproductive inhibitor to any
				species of wildlife outside of captivity in Missouri without written
				authorization of the director.
(7)
				No person who takes or possesses any wildlife shall wantonly leave or abandon
				any portion of such wildlife commonly used as human food.
(8) With landowner permission, any species
				listed in the Approved Aquatic Species List in
				3 CSR
				10-9.110 may be released into privately owned
				impoundments which are designated as waters of the state by virtue of having
				been stocked by the state, or because they are owned jointly, or as tenants in
				common or by corporate shareholders. Statewide seasons, methods, and limits for
				all species will apply to these waters.
(9) The release of transgenic fish or
				wildlife into the wild is prohibited without written authorization of the
				director. Transgenic fish or wildlife may be possessed and used only as
				authorized by
				3 CSR
				10-9.110.
*Original authority: 252.240, RSMo 1972, amended
					 1984.