The executive director shall have authority to close all hunting and fishing within the lands contracted for with the federal government pursuant to the provisions of Section 49-5-23 for such period of time as may, in the opinion of the executive director, be necessary; shall have authority from time to time to prescribe the season for hunting or fishing therein, to fix the amount of fees required for special hunting licenses and to issue such licenses, to prescribe the number of animals and game, fish and birds that shall be taken therefrom and the size thereof, and to prescribe the conditions under which the same may be taken.
Any person violating any of the rules so promulgated by the executive director, or who shall hunt or fish upon such lands at any time, other than those times specified by the executive director, shall, upon conviction therefor be fined not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or imprisoned for not less than ten (10) days nor more than thirty (30) days for each and every offense.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology
Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing
§ 49-7-1. Definitions and interpretations
§ 49-7-1.1. Declaration of public policy
§ 49-7-2. "Social Security Administration" construed to include Railroad Retirement Board
§ 49-7-7. Use of revenue from increase in license fees
§ 49-7-25. Records and reports
§ 49-7-30. Season for nongame gross fish
§ 49-7-31.2. Open season for game birds
§ 49-7-31.3. Open season for game animals other than deer
§ 49-7-32. Restrictions on hunting with dogs during turkey season
§ 49-7-35. Game season beginning on Sunday
§ 49-7-40. Special hunt by handicapped persons in natural area at Arkabutla Lake
§ 49-7-42. Training bird dogs through use of release pens and tamed and identified quail
§ 49-7-43. Regulation of certain Mississippi lands purchased by federal government
§ 49-7-49. Prima facie evidence of hunting, trapping, or fishing
§ 49-7-53. Shipment and other transportation of game birds, animals or fish
§ 49-7-55. Unlawful to possess, etc.
§ 49-7-57. Possession of lawfully taken game animal, bird or fish; unlawful possession prohibited
§ 49-7-63. Use of traps, nets, etc., prohibited
§ 49-7-65. Unlawful to hunt, when
§ 49-7-67. Unlawful to sell, when
§ 49-7-69. Use of explosives and chemicals prohibited
§ 49-7-71. Unlawful to disturb traps
§ 49-7-73. Unlawful to disturb nests or eggs
§ 49-7-75. Unlawful to fire woods, when
§ 49-7-77. Game protected during high water or fire
§ 49-7-78. Canned hunts prohibited
§ 49-7-79. Unlawful to hunt on lands of others, when
§ 49-7-80. Releasing aquatic species or animals not indigenous to Mississippi without permit
§ 49-7-83. Unlawful not to return to water game fish taken by net
§ 49-7-89. Fish dealers not to possess
§ 49-7-93. Killing deer or spotted fawn out of season; penalties
§ 49-7-97. Liability of public officer for failure to perform duty