Mississippi Code — 49
Browse 811 sections in division 49 of the Mississippi code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 49-1-1. Definitions.
- § 49-1-3. Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks assuming powers and duties of Commission on Wildlife Conservation.
- § 49-1-4. Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks to assume powers and duties of Department of Wildlife Conservation.
- § 49-1-9. Chief law enforcement officer.
- § 49-1-11. Public relations officer.
- § 49-1-12. Wardens, game wardens, and game and fish wardens designated conservation officers; construction and effect of designation.
- § 49-1-13. Conservation officers.
- § 49-1-14. Retiring sworn law enforcement officer employed by Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks authorized to retain side arm under certain circumstances.
- § 49-1-15. Conservation officers; appointments and qualifications.
- § 49-1-16. Conservation Officers’ Reserve Unit.
- § 49-1-17. Repealed.
- § 49-1-19. Political activity.
- § 49-1-21. Fidelity bonds; oath of office.
- § 49-1-29. Powers and duties of commission and executive director.
- § 49-1-31. Repealed.
- § 49-1-33. Acquisition of lands overflowed by construction of dam.
- § 49-1-35. Official magazine of department.
- § 49-1-37. Power to dispose of contraband animals, birds, fish, etc.
- § 49-1-39. Power to capture or destroy animals injurious to property.
- § 49-1-41. Power to issue permits for scientific or propagation purposes.
- § 49-1-43. Powers and duties of director of Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
- § 49-1-43. 1.
- § 49-1-44. Powers and duties of conservation officers to apprehend certain violators.
- § 49-1-45. Publication of rules, regulations and orders.
- § 49-1-47. Commission may execute deeds to clear up ambiguities in conveyances to it.
- § 49-1-49. Cooperation with other departments.
- § 49-1-51. Funds.
- § 49-1-53. Offices; supplies.
- § 49-1-55. Natural Science Museum.
- § 49-1-57. Assent to federal program for promotion of hunter safety, principles of conservation and sportsmanship.
- § 49-1-59. Repealed.
- § 49-1-60. Insurance covering hunter safety program.
- § 49-1-61-49-1-63. Repealed.
- § 49-1-65. Hunter Education and Training Program Fund.
- § 49-2-1. Declaration of purpose.
- § 49-2-2. Definitions.
- § 49-2-3. Repealed.
- § 49-2-4. Department of Environmental Quality; executive director; qualifications.
- § 49-2-5. Commission on Environmental Quality.
- § 49-2-6. Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality assuming powers and duties of Mississippi Commission on Natural Resources.
- § 49-2-7. Department of Environmental Quality assuming powers and duties of Department of Natural Resources; organization of department; duties.
- § 49-2-9. Commission on Environmental Quality; powers and duties.
- § 49-2-11. Economic and fiscal impact statements; prerequisite to enactment of rule or regulation and notice of action; effect of statements.
- § 49-2-13. Powers and duties of executive director.
- § 49-2-15. Repealed.
- § 49-2-16. Qualifications for certain office heads.
- § 49-2-17. Assistant for administration.
- § 49-2-19. Traveling expenses of departmental employees.
- § 49-2-21. Attorney General as counsel to Commission and Department of Environmental Quality; executive director authorized to employ legal counsel.
- § 49-2-23. Authority to enter agreements with National Space Technology Laboratories.
- § 49-2-24. Conference suite within Mississippi Technology Transfer Center named in honor of Herman Cowan Glazier, Jr.
- § 49-2-25. Creation of office of technical resources; supervision.
- § 49-2-27. Repealed.
- § 49-2-29. Strategic plan for operations of Department of Environmental Quality.
- § 49-2-31. Comparative risk assessment.
- § 49-2-41-49-2-63. Repealed.
- § 49-2-71. Discovery and admissibility in evidence of environmental self-evaluation reports; divulgence or dissemination of information in reports; exemption from Public Records Act.
- § 49-2-81. Short title.
- § 49-2-83. Legislative findings.
- § 49-2-85. Definitions.
- § 49-2-87. Development and implementation of home-generated medical sharps disposal education program.
- § 49-2-101. Definitions.
- § 49-2-103. Program to encourage certification of electronic recyclers; directory of certified electronic recyclers; compliance; applicability.
- § 49-3-1. Short title.
- § 49-3-3. Purpose of chapter.
- § 49-3-5. Establishment of laboratory.
- § 49-3-7. Maintenance of laboratory.
- § 49-3-9. Functions.
- § 49-3-11. Acceptance of gifts, grants, and contributions.
- § 49-3-13. Cooperation with state agencies.
- § 49-3-15. Work for other organizations.
- § 49-3-17. “Fish” defined; effect of chapter on authority of other agencies.
- § 49-4-1. Declaration of purpose.
- § 49-4-3. Definitions.
- § 49-4-4. Mississippi Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
- § 49-4-5. Repealed.
- § 49-4-6. Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks; organization of department; executive director; removal for cause; office heads; merit promotion system for certain enforcement officers.
- § 49-4-7. Commission to appoint advisory committees; department designated to receive federal funds; department to manage and coordinate all functions related to wildlife and fisheries.
- § 49-4-8. Powers and duties of department.
- § 49-4-9. Powers and duties of Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
- § 49-4-11. Qualifications of executive director.
- § 49-4-13. Powers and duties of executive director.
- § 49-4-15. Repealed.
- § 49-4-17. Repealed.
- § 49-4-19. Traveling expenses of departmental employees.
- § 49-4-21. Attorney General as counsel to Commission and Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
- § 49-4-22. Maintaining court records and abstracts of game and fish law violations.
- § 49-4-23. Repealed.
- § 49-4-25. Repealed.
- § 49-4-27. Repealed.
- § 49-4-29. Repealed.
- § 49-4-31. Hunter safety officers to investigate hunting accidents; law enforcement officer authorized to request that person involved in hunting accident resulting in injury or death submit to chemical test for presence of alcohol.
- § 49-4-33. Repealed.
- § 49-4-35. Marked and unmarked department vehicles; violations and penalties.
- § 49-4-37. North Mississippi fish hatchery; establishment; operation.
- § 49-4-39. Regulation of hunting, fishing and wildlife viewing, guide and outfitter services.
- § 49-4-41. Regulation of the feeding of wild animals and game birds outside of wildlife enclosures.
- § 49-5-1. Public lands.
- § 49-5-2. Definitions.
- § 49-5-3. Boards of supervisors may add to preserve.
- § 49-5-5. Unlawful to hunt on preserve.
- § 49-5-7. What birds protected.
- § 49-5-9. Waterfowl included within term “game.”
- § 49-5-11. Game and fish management projects or refuges; purchase of lands.
- § 49-5-13. Wildlife management projects or refuges; regulation and management; lease of lands.
- § 49-5-13. 1.
- § 49-5-14. Fox preserve or refuge; contracts with private landowners in Yalobusha or Grenada counties.
- § 49-5-15. Contracts with counties for joint support and maintenance of projects or refuges.
- § 49-5-16. Construction of lodges.
- § 49-5-17. Issuance and retirement of bonds.
- § 49-5-19. Posting of refuges.
- § 49-5-21. Fisheries and Wildlife Fund created; annual budget requests to Legislature.
- § 49-5-23. Federal regulatory authority; cooperative agreements with United States.
- § 49-5-25. Wildlife restoration.
- § 49-5-27. Repealed.
- § 49-5-29. Federal migratory bird refuges.
- § 49-5-31. Federal acts.
- § 49-5-33. Authority of United States Commissioner of fishieries.
- § 49-5-35. Biological survey.
- § 49-5-37. Appropriation to eradicate rabies among foxes.
- § 49-5-39. Fines and penalties.
- § 49-5-41. Statute of limitations.
- § 49-5-43. Duties of sheriffs and other peace officers.
- § 49-5-45. Duties of district attorneys, county attorneys and circuit judges.
- § 49-5-47. Corporations; how prosecuted.
- § 49-5-49. Witnesses.
- § 49-5-51. Disposition of fines.
- § 49-5-61. Transfer of powers and duties of Wildlife Heritage Committee.
- § 49-5-63-49-5-67. Repealed.
- § 49-5-69. Contracts and agreements.
- § 49-5-71. Acquisition and disposition of real and personal property; easements and rights-of-way.
- § 49-5-73. Employment of personnel.
- § 49-5-75. Rules and regulations.
- § 49-5-76. Commission authorized to solicit and receive gifts on behalf of Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks Foundation.
- § 49-5-77. Wildlife Heritage Fund; gifts; administration of acquired property.
- § 49-5-78. Additional hunting and fishing fee for Wildlife Heritage Fund; purchase of hunting and fishing areas.
- § 49-5-79. Repealed.
- § 49-5-81. Camping and recreational facilities.
- § 49-5-83. Expenditures and audit of funds.
- § 49-5-85. Sections cumulative.
- § 49-5-86. Definitions.
- § 49-5-87. Commission to take title to certain lands in name of state.
- § 49-5-88. Bond issuance authorized for purpose of acquiring aforementioned lands.
- § 49-5-89. Bonds; authority of state bond commission; payment; maturities and signatures.
- § 49-5-90. Bonds; negotiability; exemption from taxation.
- § 49-5-91. Bonds; sale; interest.
- § 49-5-92. Bonds; wildlife heritage committee land purchase fund.
- § 49-5-93. Bonds; rights of bondholders.
- § 49-5-94. Bonds; validation.
- § 49-5-95. Bonds; legal investments and securities.
- § 49-5-96. Bonds; Sections 49-5-86 through 49-5-98 full and complete authority.
- § 49-5-97. Bonds; withdrawals from land purchase fund; report of expenditures.
- § 49-5-98. Bonds; duty of attorney general; costs.
- § 49-5-99. Open access to and use of land managed by commission for recreational hunting; certain limitations; report of acreage managed by commission.
- § 49-5-101. Title.
- § 49-5-103. Legislative findings and declaration.
- § 49-5-105. Definitions.
- § 49-5-107. Designation and protection of nongame wildlife in need of management.
- § 49-5-109. Designation and protection of endangered species.
- § 49-5-111. Programs; permission to remove, capture or destroy endangered species.
- § 49-5-113. Regulations.
- § 49-5-115. Enforcement; penalties.
- § 49-5-117. Construction.
- § 49-5-119. Funding of programs.
- § 49-5-141. Short title.
- § 49-5-143. Legislative findings and declaration.
- § 49-5-145. Purpose.
- § 49-5-147. Definitions.
- § 49-5-149. Powers and duties of commission.
- § 49-5-151. Register of natural areas.
- § 49-5-153. Registration of natural areas.
- § 49-5-155. Dedication of natural areas to commission; exemption from ad valorem taxation.
- § 49-5-157. Management, protection and inspection of natural area preserves.
- § 49-6-1. Definitions.
- § 49-6-3. Wildlife Fisheries and Parks Motor Vehicle Fund; creation; funding; administration.
- § 49-6-5. Motor vehicle replacement program; standards.
- § 49-7-1. Definitions and interpretations.
- § 49-7-1. 1.
- § 49-7-2. “Social Security Administration” construed to include Railroad Retirement Board.
- § 49-7-3. Issuance of resident hunting or fishing licenses; possession of license.
- § 49-7-4. Exemption of records relating to hunting, fishing and trapping license applications and holders of such licenses from Mississippi Public Records Act.
- § 49-7-5. Fees for resident hunting, fishing, and combination hunting and fishing licenses; exemptions.
- § 49-7-7. Use of revenue from increase in license fees.
- § 49-7-8. Hunting, fishing or trapping license for nonresident; fees; violations.
- § 49-7-9. Resident fishing licenses.
- § 49-7-9. 1.
- § 49-7-10. Repealed.
- § 49-7-11. Repealed.
- § 49-7-12. Reciprocal agreements with other states; nonresident freshwater commercial fishing licenses; fees; penalties.
- § 49-7-12. 1.
- § 49-7-13. Definitions; fee for resident trapper’s license; permission of landowners to trap; certain types of traps prohibited; identification of traps; placing or setting traps near public roads or streets; exemptions; selling of skins and meat of certain animals during and after trapping season.
- § 49-7-15. Repealed.
- § 49-7-16. Fur dealer or regular buyer of fur bearing animals; license; fees; possession of furs; tagging.
- § 49-7-17. License agents; bonding requirements; additional license fee for officer or person issuing license; additional fee to recoup costs of issuing licenses.
- § 49-7-19. Prohibition against issuing license to person physically or mentally unfit to carry or use firearm.
- § 49-7-20. Requirement of satisfactory completion of hunter education course; resident apprentice hunting license; resident combination small game hunting and fishing license.
- § 49-7-20. 1.
- § 49-7-21. License certificates; hunting, trapping or fishing without license prohibited; penalties.
- § 49-7-22. Multiyear licenses; fees; additional license fee for person issuing license.
- § 49-7-23. Sale of hunting and fishing licenses by constables designated as deputy conservation officers.
- § 49-7-25. Records and reports.
- § 49-7-26. Development of tagging and reporting program for deer and turkey to collect harvest data and monitor bag limit compliance; penalties for violation of turkey or deer tagging program.
- § 49-7-27. Revocation and suspension of licenses and privileges; penalties for hunting, trapping or fishing without license or privilege.
- § 49-7-29. Wholesale minnow dealers.
- § 49-7-30. Season for nongame gross fish.
- § 49-7-31. Open season on deer.
- § 49-7-31. 1.
- § 49-7-31. 2.
- § 49-7-31. 3.
- § 49-7-31. 4.
- § 49-7-31. 5.
- § 49-7-32. Restrictions on hunting with dogs during turkey season.
- § 49-7-33. Use of scents, lures, sound devices or supplemental feed for hunting and trapping.
- § 49-7-33. 1.
- § 49-7-34. Hunting enclosures; permits; regulations; penalties for violation.
- § 49-7-35. Game season beginning on Sunday.
- § 49-7-37. Hunting of game with falcons or hawks, bow and arrow or primitive firearms; special open seasons on deer and small game; license fees; penalties.
- § 49-7-38. Certain persons authorized to hunt with bow and arrow or crossbow during any open season on deer, turkey or small game.
- § 49-7-38. 1.
- § 49-7-39. Special hunt for youth and persons with disabilities in Natchez State Park; primitive weapon season in Natchez State Park; commission may establish such hunts in other state parks; commission may authorize special youth hunts for nonmigratory birds; special hunting season for youth to run concurrently with primitive weapon season on deer.
- § 49-7-40. Special hunt by handicapped persons in natural area at Arkabutla Lake.
- § 49-7-41. Bag limits.
- § 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.
- § 49-7-45. Certain acts declared unlawful; dismissal upon proper proof of actions for failure to register or possess boat’s registration card.
- § 49-7-47. Restrictions on hunting or catching alligators.
- § 49-7-49. Prima facie evidence of hunting, trapping, or fishing.
- § 49-7-51. Sale of game birds, animals or fish.
- § 49-7-53. Shipment and other transportation of game birds, animals or fish.
- § 49-7-54. Importation and translocation of white-tailed deer into state prohibited; exception for university research facilities; commission to establish regulations governing importation with emphasis on disease prevention; penalties.
- § 49-7-55. Unlawful to possess, etc.
- § 49-7-56. Restaurants permitted to prepare and serve recreationally caught finfish to persons who caught the fish.
- § 49-7-57. Possession of lawfully taken game animal, bird or fish; unlawful possession prohibited.
- § 49-7-58. Temporary moratorium on importation of elk, red deer, mule deer, black-tailed deer and other cervids designated as susceptible to chronic wasting disease; penalties; authority of commission.
- § 49-7-58. 1.
- § 49-7-58. 2.
- § 49-7-58. 3.
- § 49-7-58. 4.
- § 49-7-59. Hours for hunting.
- § 49-7-61. Hunting on Sabbath.
- § 49-7-63. Use of traps, nets, etc., prohibited.
- § 49-7-65. Unlawful to hunt, when.
- § 49-7-67. Unlawful to sell, when.
- § 49-7-68. Unlawful to engage in computer-assisted remote hunting; penalties.
- § 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.
- § 49-7-81. Unlawful methods of taking fish; exceptions; penalties.
- § 49-7-83. Unlawful not to return to water game fish taken by net.
- § 49-7-85. Repealed.
- § 49-7-87. Fish, sale of, unlawful, when.
- § 49-7-89. Fish dealers not to possess.
- § 49-7-90. Possession of paddlefish in violation of law or regulation; penalties; permits and fees.
- § 49-7-91. Unlawful to fish commercially in Muddy Bayou.
- § 49-7-93. Killing deer or spotted fawn out of season; penalties.
- § 49-7-95. Killing deer by headlighting or other lighting devices; killing livestock; harassment of wildlife; penalties.
- § 49-7-96. Deer management zones; antler restrictions.
- § 49-7-97. Liability of public officer for failure to perform duty.
- § 49-7-99. Repealed.
- § 49-7-101. General fines and penalties.
- § 49-7-102. Repealed.
- § 49-7-103. Seizure and confiscation of property used in illegal hunting or fishing, etc., as contraband.
- § 49-7-105-49-7-131. Repealed.
- § 49-7-133. Reciprocity agreement recognizing hunting and fishing licenses issued by participating states.
- § 49-7-135. Compact concerning Pearl River authorized.
- § 49-7-137. Lease of certain state lands for hunting, fishing and conservation purposes.
- § 49-7-139. Seafoods excluded.
- § 49-7-140. Importation, release and transportation of wild hogs; prohibition; permit; penalties.
- § 49-7-141. Penalties; Class I violations.
- § 49-7-143. Penalties; Class II violations.
- § 49-7-145. Repealed.
- § 49-7-147. Interference with lawful taking of wildlife.
- § 49-7-148. Access for hunters with disabilities; use of mobility related device.
- § 49-7-151. Creation of lifetime sportsman license and Mississippi Wildlife Endowment Fund.
- § 49-7-153. Lifetime sportsman and lifetime fishing licenses.
- § 49-7-155. Wildlife Endowment Fund.
- § 49-7-161. Definitions.
- § 49-7-163. Unlawful to hunt or take migratory waterfowl without stamp or electronic equivalent; validation of stamp or proof of purchase of electronic equivalent; issuance or sale of stamp or electronic equivalent.
- § 49-7-165. Fee for stamp.
- § 49-7-167. Disposition of revenues.
- § 49-7-169. Commission may enter into reciprocal agreements with other states.
- § 49-7-171. Ascertainment of acceptability of projects undertaken outside of state.
- § 49-7-173. Penalties.
- § 49-7-201. Beaver and wild hog control program established; funding; county contributions; “participating landowner” defined.
- § 49-7-203. Beaver and Wild Hog Control Advisory Board created; composition of board; compensation of members; duties, responsibilities and authority of board.
- § 49-7-251. Petition for forfeiture; service of process; procedure to determine ownership of particular types of property; hearing prerequisite.
- § 49-7-253. Time to file answer; failure to file; time for hearing; burden of proof; evidence at hearing; decision.
- § 49-7-255. Liquidation of forfeited property; disposition of proceeds; retention and use of certain property; issuance of certificate of title.
- § 49-7-257. Administrative forfeiture procedures for certain property.
- § 49-7-301. Implied consent to chemical test of certain bodily substances for presence of alcohol or other drugs; validity of chemical analysis; who may take bodily substance specimens.
- § 49-7-303. Revocation or suspension of hunting license where use of weapon by person with specified alcohol concentration causes serious injury or death to another person; admissibility of chemical test results in civil or criminal actions; hunter education course required for restoration of hunting privileges.
- § 49-7-305. Hunting incident reports.
- § 49-7-351. Wounded warrior special programs: establishment of special seasons within wildlife management areas and refuges for hunting, fishing and other recreational activities for eligible veterans and active duty service members.
- § 49-8-1. Legislative findings and declarations.
- § 49-8-3. Definitions.