SEC. 49-11-15. Game which may be hunted.

Game which may be hunted under this chapter shall be confined to artificially propagated pheasants, quail, chukar partridges, mallards and black ducks, and such game bird species as the game and fish commission may add from time to time.

Mallards and/or black ducks released on a shooting preserve must have had a one-fourth ( 1 /4 ) inch hole punched in the outer web of the right foot before the birds attain the age of six (6) weeks.

SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 5899-03; Laws, 1962, ch. 182, Sec. 3; 1979, ch. 375, Sec. 4, eff from and after July 1, 1979.

1997 Amendment:

 SECTION 7. Section 49-11-15, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

 49-11-15. * * * (1) Artificially propagated pheasants, quail, chukar partridges, mallards and black ducks, and any game bird * * * authorized by the commission * * * are the only game which may be hunted on shooting preserves under this chapter.

 (2) Mallards and * * * black ducks released on a shooting preserve must have * * * a one-fourth (1/4) inch hole punched in the outer web of the right foot before the birds attain the age of six (6) weeks.

 (3) The commission is authorized to specify the species of non-native wild game that may be released or hunted in commercial wildlife enclosures.

SOURCE:  1997 Laws, Chapter 546, Sec. 7, SB2699, July 1, 1997.